Freighter ship docked.
Black and white photographic image with border. Real photo postcard. Postally unused.
Collection
FLHS Postcard Collection
Cataloged By
TLB (Todd Bothel)
Acquisition
Accession
71-1
Source or Donor
Stranahan, Ivy Cromartie
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Stranahan Collection
Made/Created
Date made
1939 - 1945
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Postcard
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Writing Media
Nomenclature Class
Written Communication T&E
Nomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Ships, Freight ships, Freighters, Cargo ships
Search Terms
World War II, Arauca, Port Everglades, World War II, Germans
Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Other Number
Other Number
P-1097
Location
Location
Container
Postcard Files, P-951 - P-1100
Room
Hofmann Manuscript Room
Building
Hoch Heritage Center
Category
Permanent
Date
October 26, 2023
Inventory
Inventoried By
MTE (Margo Edwards)
Inventoried Date
Oct 24, 2008
Maintenance
Maintenance History
Date
Aug 8, 2007
Relationships
Related Entries
Notes
5-8237, P-1097
General Notes
Note
Notes: The United States did not enter World War II until 1941, but Fort Lauderdale felt the effect of the war sooner than most of the rest of the country. In December 1939, a British cruiser chased the German freighter Arauca into Port Everglades, where she remained until the US seized her in 1941, when Germany declared war on the US.
The ARAUCA was a German freighter sailing to some not known destination and was off the Florida coast in the late fall 1939 or early winter of 1940. A British military vessel had shot at them at about the three-mile limit, and the ARAUCA sought refuge in the Ft. Lauderdale harbor. Although the United States was not yet at war, the freighter and its crew were detained at Ft. Lauderdale.
