Vessel assisting Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, New York Bay
1919-02
paper
4 x 6 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "6383", and on album page "LORD DUFFERIN"; tugboat or lighter at stern and assisting Canadian freighter LORD DUFFERIN sunk in New York Harbor, after being rammed by steamship AQUITANIA on February 28, 1919; see accession file for "The New York Times" article about the accident; see related photographs 2008.28.8.427-438, 457-460 (probably), 471-472.

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