Steamship KIA ORA aground off Castle Island, British West Indies, February 24, 1917
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Bahamas, Castle Island
1917-02
paper
3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in.
Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "6010-C/ film", and lower right in negative "S.S. KIA-ORA, Br./ Stranded Castle Is/ Feb 24 - Floated Mar 3"; stern view of steamship KIA ORA aground off Castle Island, British West Indies, February-March 1917; Castle Island Light visible in background; duplicate of 2008.28.7.1364 (neg. no. 5868-C); 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.
2008.28.8.79