Stranded steamships PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE, PRINZ WALDEMAR, and PREMIER, probably off Port Royal, Jamaica, December 1906

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Jamaica, Port Royal
1906
paper
3 x 6-3/8 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 1964.519, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten in negative at bottom "PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE" and "PREMIER" and "WALDEMAR"; 3 steamships stranded, PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE, PRINZ WALDEMAR, and PREMIER, probably off Port Royal, Jamaica, December 1906; see accession file for account of stranding; captain of PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE committed shot himself to death 2 hours after ship ran on the rocks.

1964.519.792