Steamship TURRIALBA aground at Brigantine Shoal, NJ, December 24, 1912

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Brigantine Shoal
1912-12-24
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower right "3819" and in negative "'S.S. TURRIALBA'/ AshoRe NORTH BRIGANTINe ShOAL JeRSeY COAST/ Dec. 24, 1912.", and on album page "S/S 'Turrialba' Ashore North Brigantine Shoal, [part of page missing] 24, 1912"; port stern view of steamship TURRIALBA aground, showing broken rudder, December 24, 1912, Brigantine Shoal, NJ; from original negative 1964.660.956; see related photographs 2008.28.7.98-103; see 1913 Annual Report of the US Revenue-Cutter Service, page 41, and 1913 Annual Report of the US Life-Saving Service, page 126, for accounts of marine accident in snow storm.

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