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 "83", and "This is a view of the tow boat Perth Amboy taken after she had been torpedoed off Cape Cod by a German submarine in the summer 1917 [sic.] She was towed into Viney'd Haven harbor"; rubberstamped "HENRY M. ROCHESTER, / VINEYARD HAVEN, MASS."; 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 2014.49.9801.
2014.49.9802