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On the Waterfront: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 1:49am.
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Mobile, Alabama, circa 1905. "Southern Railway terminals." The freighters Trafalgar and, far right, a sliver of the Marie Suzanne. View full size.
Munson Sailing Schedule
Submitted by klebs on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 9:07pm.
Notice the SS Trafalgar at the bottom
Regular Sailings to Cuba
Submitted by stanton_square on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 8:43pm.
Blue Book of American Shipping: 1911.From Mobile, Ala.
To Cuba. Regular sailings of Munson Steamship Line to Havana, Matanzas, Cardenas, Sagua, Caibarien, Cienfugos, Guantanamo, Manzanillo, Santiago and other ports. James Gibboney & Co., agents, Mobile, Ala. This service is operated on a traffic agreement with the Southern Ry. and Mobile & Ohio R. R. (J.S. Taylor, F.F.A., Mobile, Ala.); also with the Louisville & Nashville R. R. (J.A. Bywater, F.F.A., Louisville, Ky.) Regular sailings of Munson Steamship Line to Colon-Panama. Main office: 82-02 Beaver st., New York.
12 letters, starts with D
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 4:29pm.
Who wants to take a stab at identifying the schooner parked next to the Trafalgar?
City of Camden
Submitted by Yooler on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 2:16pm.
Appears to be the wreckage of the City of Camden (built 1893), a Ouachita River steamboat, on the far shore. To get to Mobile Bay, she would have gone down the Ouachita, the Tensas and Black Rivers, the Mississippi, and then east along the Gulf Coast to Mobile.
Don't Look Down
Submitted by fanhead on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 9:45am.
I'm not particularly acrophobic but the two guys and cart on the sagging gangplank give me the heebie jeebies.
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