Steamship KIA ORA aground off Castle Island, British West Indies, February 24, 1917

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Bahamas, Castle Island
1917-02
paper
3-1/8 x 5-3/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "6010-B/ film", and at bottom in negative "S.S. KIA-ORA, Br./ Castle Is. B.W.I./ Feb. 1917"; port view of steamship KIA ORA aground off Castle Island, British West Indies, February, 1917; duplicate of 2008.28.7.1364 (neg. no. 5868-D); see related photographs 2008.28.8.77-80; see accession file for account of KIA ORA grounding on coral reef, and salvage by wrecking steamer RELIEF.

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