"THE WORCESTER IS AFLOAT / By Pumping and Lightering She Lifted Out of the Mud Today", newspaper clipping, June 3, 1898

newspaper clipping

EPHEMERA
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, CT, Thames; USA, CT, New London
1898-06-03
paper
6-1/4 x 4-1/2 in.

Newspaper clipping mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; newspaper clipping, probably from "The (New London) Day", dated in pencil June 3, 1898, "THE WORCESTER IS AFLOAT / By Pumping and Lightering She Lifted Out of the Mud Today."; account of raising of steamer CITY OF WORCESTER after sinking in Thames River, New London, CT, June 1898, with references to T.A. Scott Company; see related photographs 2008.28.10.305-311, 352, 551.


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