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"Olympic" Rams Lightship 1934
Description
Full title reads: " "OLYMPIC" RAMS LIGHTSHIP - The 47,000-ton liner cuts right through the "Nantucket" in a dense fog."
New York, United States of America (USA).
Several shots of huge liner 'Olympic' at a dock in New York. Several shots of the members of the crew of destroyed lightship...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 9724
- Sort Number:
- 34/043
- Time in/Out:
- 01:25:24:00 / 01:26:32:00
- Canister:
- 34/43
- Film ID:
- 787.19
- Issue Date:
- 28/05/1934
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The incident occurred on 15 May 1934.
"one of the men has bandaged head" - that's the Captain of the Nantucket, George W Braithwaite.
"The Captain of the liner" - his name is John Binks.
"Men state that all happened so quickly" - the man saying that is the Nantucket's first mate Clifton E Mosher.
Attached is a newspaper article of the era reporting the incident....
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19340517&id=Iu1PAAA
AIBAJ&sjid=zVQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=380
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