Black and white/sepia postcard
Acc.no: PEZPH : 1992.1530
Identification
Item: Wreck of the SS Minnehaha, 1910
Description: SS Minnehaha struck Scilly Rock on 18 April 1910. She was bound from New York to London with 66 passengers, 171 crew and 230 cattle. All were rescued. By Saturday 14 May she was re-floated and made for Falmouth Docks. Amusing accounts of the salvage operations can be read in 'The Cornishman'. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on 7 September 1917 12 miles off Fastnet with a loss of 43 souls.
Condition: Good
Description
Height: Mm
Width: Mm
Material: Postcard
Production
Method: Printed
Person: Gibson
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