"THE WORCESTER'S MISHAP / Steamer Struck Cormorant Reef, Was Run Ashore and Sank---Badly Damaged", newspaper clipping, May 30, 1898

newspaper clipping

EPHEMERA
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, CT, Thames; USA, CT, New London
1898-05-30
paper
10-3/4 x 10 in.

Newspaper clipping mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; newspaper clipping, dated in pencil May 30, 1898, "THE WORCESTER'S MISHAP / Steamer Struck Cormorant Reef, Was Run Ashore and Sank---Badly Damaged."; account of steamer CITY OF WORCESTER, sinking in Thames River, New London, CT, 1898; see related photographs 2008.28.10.305-311, 352, 551.


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