sunk1943

10 photos tagged sunk1943, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Caruso departing, 9/24/19 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    Date error in transcribed title.
    See Mrs. E. Caruso (LOC)
  • swanq said:
    The [New York] Sun., May 25, 1919, Page 11, column 5. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-05-25/ed-... reported that Enrico Caruso and his bride, the former Dorothy Park Benjamin, sailed yesterday for Genoa on the Giuseppe Verdi.
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks swanq, we'll fix the date and update the catalog records of the Caruso photos.

Mine laying stem of "S132" (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    S132 was a German destroyer ceded to the U.S. after WWI. The U.S> minesweeper Redwing had towed on of the three ceded destroyers across the Atlantic. The destroyers had been scuttled by the Germans in Scapa Flow and raised by the British.

    See German destroyers at N.Y. (LOC)
  • B-59 said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_ocean-going_torpedo_boats_an...: S 132 - Launched 19 May 1917 - Completed 2 Oct 1917 - Interned, Scapa Flow, 22 Nov 1918; beached while attempting to scuttle, 21 Jun 1919; to USA, 1920; sunk as gunnery target by USS Delaware (BB-28) and destroyer USS Herbert (DD-160) off Cape Henry, 15 Jul 1921. S. also photo in commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_large_topedoboat_S...
  • Greg Marcangelo said:
    Thanks, swanq and B-59, for fuller info.

Guns on GIUSEPPE VERDI (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • B-59 said:
    See comment under
    Gun on GIUSEPPE VERDI (LOC)
  • soups316 said:
    This is the boat my Grandfather emigrated to America on from Naples Italy in (I think) 1917.