About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_2021
  • TitleBattles, storms minor events
  • SummaryCaption: "Battles, storms minor events--Capt. Percy Cross, on bridge of Blue Funnel Line ship Ajax as she unloads a mountain of raw sugar from the Philippines, say he spent an 'uneventful' 42 years--of storms and battles and such--at sea."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 23, 1950. Title from caption on verso,.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMerchant mariners -- Officers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Waterfront: Seamen