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Rescued MARIPOSA passengers aboard the freight steamer DISPATCH, Fitz Hugh Sound, British Columbia, October 1915
Rescued MARIPOSA passengers aboard the freight steamer DISPATCH, Fitz Hugh Sound, British Columbia, October 1915
TitleRescued MARIPOSA passengers aboard the freight steamer DISPATCH, Fitz Hugh Sound, British Columbia, October 1915
PhotographerThwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940
Date1915
NotesCaption on image: Mariposa passengers on board S.S. Despatch

PH Coll 247.500
Contextual NotesOwned by the Alaska Steamship Company, the MARIPOSA sustained damage on a rock ledge at the upper end of Fitz Hugh Sound. She was refloated by the Esquimalt salvage steamer SALVOR, towed south and drydocked at the Seattle Construction and Drydock Co. on November 15. The passengers were rescued within two hours and landed at Ketchikan.

Subjects (LCTGM)Dispatch (Ship); Ship accidents--British Columbia; Rescues--British Columbia; Alaska Steamship Co.--People--British Columbia; Alaska Steamship Co.--Equipment & supplies--British Columbia
Subjects (LCSH)Steamboats--British Columbia--Fitz Hugh Sound; Shipwreck victims--British Columbia--Fitz Hugh Sound
Location DepictedCanada--British Columbia--Fitzhugh Sound
Digital CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photographs
Order NumberTHW260
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Negative NumberTHWAITES 247.500
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003.
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