Tugboats HUGH ROSS & SOMMERS N. SMITH, & lighter SOPHIA (SOPHIE?) assisting freighter CAROLYN, wrecked on Metinic Island, Maine, January 1912

real photo postcard, divided back

POSTCARDS
2014 Lang Collection
USA, ME, Knox County, Metinic Island
1912-08-17
paper
3-1/4 x 5-3/8 in.

Real photo postcard, divided back; handwritten on back "10 9-95", and "FRT. CAROLYN W/TUG HUGH ROSS & LT. SOPHIA SAT 17 AUG 1912 / TUGS OTHER SIDE SOMMERS N. SMITH & SEGUIN / SALVAGE BY SNOW MARINE CO - ROCKLAND, ME / CAROLYN BLT 1889 WHITBY, ENGLAND / . . . / WRECKED NE POINT METINIC ISLAND JAN 1912 / CARRY [?] OF PAPER & 30,000 BUSHELS / OF POTATOES FR. STOCKTON, ME TO NEW YORK", and "Presented by Mr Snow Sept 8th 1912"; tugboats HUGH ROSS and SOMMERS N. SMITH, and lighter SOPHIA (SOPHIE?) assisting freighter CAROLYN, wrecked on Metinic Island, Maine, January 1912; see related postcards 2014.49.9640-9647.

2014.49.9640