Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2012.39.028
Accession#:
2012.39
Credit Line:
Donated by Dick Reynolds.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Sinking of the Princess Kathleen
Place:
Lena Point, Alaska
Date:
09/07/1952
Description:
Photograph of the sinking of the Princess Kathleen.
Black and white horizontal photograph of a sinking ship. The boat's hull cuts across the middle ground of the photograph. The stern has already begun to sink below the water's surface. Shoreline is seen in the foreground and along the proper left edge leading towards the ship. There are two empty life boats in the water near the ship.
Notes:
The Princess Kathleen ran aground and sank at Lena Point in Lynn Canal, Alaska on September 7, 1952.
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Photograph
Ship
Shipwreck
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