To help keep the ship on even keel after the fire, oil is pumped out to spread itself in the vast expanse of ocean.

To help keep the ship on even keel after the fire, oil is pumped out to spread itself in the vast expanse of ocean.

Photograph

U.S. Navy

Unidentified

Maker

To help keep the ship on even keel after the fire, oil is pumped out to spread itself in the vast expanse of ocean.

From TANKER SAGA--BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC


September 30, 1942
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0483
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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