Tugboat PERTH AMBOY damaged by German submarine, off Chatham, MA, July 1918
real photo postcard, white border
POSTCARDS2014 Lang Collection
Rodgers
USA, MA, Martha's Vineyard, Vineyard Haven; USA, MA, Chatham
1918
paper
5-3/8 x 3-3/8 in.
Real photo postcard, white border; handwritten on back "ME BN 100808", and "PERTH AMBOY LEHIGH VALLEY RR", and "This is the tug Perth Amboy that was fired on by a submarine some time in June - I got the card's in Vineyard Haven where she went after she was fired on. You can see the shot holes in the picture she caught fire and partly burned"; tugboat PERTH AMBOY damaged by German submarine, off Chatham, MA, July 1918, later towed to Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, MA; probably photographed by Rodgers of Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, MA; see related postcards 2014.49.9795-9804, duplicate of 2019.49.9802.
2014.49.9801