Salvage Scenes

gelatin negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.
USA, FL
glass
overall: 14 x 11 in.

Gelatin glass negative of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.; one of twelve salvage scenes; captions for each picture: jacking SS MAUDE; SS NICHOLAS CUNEO ashore at Long Beach; SS KERSHAW; jacks set, SS MAUDE; beach gear SS NORTHERN PACIFIC; SS LOUISIANE ashore Sombrero Reef, Florida; jacks at end of lift and pull; SS LOUISIANE jacks in place for 2nd lift. Before 1st lift was made, tide gauge shown in photo was at ship's side; SS LOUISIANE ashore Sombrero Reef, photo shows shallowness of water at commencement of operations; SS CALABRIA being jacked; jacking SS LOUISIANE end of heave; jacks set SS LOUISIANE.


1964.660.5085

Related Objects

Salvage vessel assisting sunk vessel in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.2
View Deck view of T.A. Scott Co. vessel in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.3
View T.A. Scott Co. vessel in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.4
View Tugboat JOHN C. STUART towing steamship through drawbridge in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.5
View Steamship being towed through drawbridge in Cape Cod Canal, MA
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.6
View Cape Cod Construction Co. office
gelatin silver print
Zerbe, William H.; Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1964.550.7
View thumbnail Fishing steamer JAMES N. GIFFORD of Stonington, CT, sunk at Oneco Works wharf, New London, CT, circa March 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1912-03
1964.558
View 3-Masted schooner BEAVER aground at Vineyard Haven, MA, June 17, 1912
gelatin silver print
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; T.A. Scott Company
1912-06-17
1964.562
View

Related Subjects

Shipwrecks
View Stranding of ships
View