Picture No | 12652221 |
Date | September 1939 |
Description | Lifeboats watching the Athenia as it sinks, Sept 1939 |
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Illustration of overcrowded lifeboats as they watch the transatlantic ocean liner, the Athenia, sink. The ships are shown lighting flares, creating what the Sphere describes as an "eerie scene" amid the "heavy swell" which threatened to fill the overloaded boats with water.
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Source | Illustrated by D. Macpherson in 'The Sphere', 16 September 1939, page 416 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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