SS Tuscania, British two-stack steamship, starboard beam view in camouflage

Photograph

Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

SS Tuscania, British two-stack steamship, starboard beam view in camouflage

Entry/Object ID

P-16411

Description

One of 8 photos related to the sinking of SS Tuscania. She was a British troop transport carrying U.S. soldiers to Britain when she was sunk by a German submarine off the Island of Islay, Scotland on February 5, 1918. The disaster was the first loss of a large group of U.S. soldiers during World War I.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Black and White

Collection

Photograph Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1918

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Print, Photographic, XIV-- Wrecks, collisions, & disasters, IV-A- Merchant powered cargo & cargo/passenger ships