British freighter GOWANBURN ashore at Blue Point, Long Island, NY, March 1907

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Suffolk County, Blue Point; USA, NY, Long Island
1907-03-20
paper
3-3/4 x 4-3/4 in.

Silver gelatin print in album 1964.519, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten lower right "2102", and in negative at bottom "S/S 'GOWANBURN' / Ashore Blue Point L.I. MAR. 20. 1907"; starboard view of British freighter GOWANBURN ashore at Blue Point, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1907; see related photographs 1964.519.1-14; see correspondence file 1964.521 for "New York Times" 3/15/1907 article, "Through a stinging, blinding surf seventeen Chinamen and four white men of the crew of the British freighter Gowanburn, fast in the Long Island sands off Blue Point, ten miles east of Fire Island, were rescued in the breeches buoy shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning. . ."; see also account in USLSS Annual Report 1907 (pp 66-68) for account of death on 3/15/1907 of Edward Johnsen of the salvage crew.

1964.519.9