Propeller damaged when of steamship TURRIALBA ran aground at Brigantine Shoal, NJ, December 24, 1912

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NJ, Brigantine Shoal
1912-12-24
paper
5-1/2 x 3-3/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.7 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower left "3829"; view of damaged rudder and propeller of steamship TURRIALBA after stranding in snow storm on Brigantine Shoal, NJ, December 24, 1912; from original negative 1964.660.966; 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.

2008.28.7.103