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Dept. of Life Rafts: 1912
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 12:48pm.
July 10, 1912. "Detroit Ship Building Co., life rafts dept." Our second peek behind the scenes. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Detroit Drydock
Submitted by MikeFMich on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 4:55am.
This was the Detroit Drydock factory at Orleans & Atwater in Detroit. Building still stands, albeit precariously.
The Professor and Mary Ann
Submitted by Vintagetvs on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 9:56pm.
Do they make one large enough for seven stranded castaways?
Booming business
Submitted by A Californian on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 9:01pm.
I'm guessing July 1912 life raft sales were pretty good, when photographed so soon after that April's legendary iceberg-related mishap.
Rough Ride on the Great Lakes
Submitted by Ben Roundabloc on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 4:16pm.
The attached picture is of a similar can style life raft used by the Great Lakes freighter Cyprus, which sank in October of 1907. The raft carried four crew members within sight of shore but began flipping, leaving Second Mate Pitt as the raft's sole survivor. The full story can be found here.
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