Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The SS West Cadron (later SS Iowa) sits moored in an unknown port at center. It is viewed from its starboard side with the stern at left and the bow at right. On the bow, markings read, "WEST CA[...]." It was later renamed the SS Iowa in 1928 and eventually sank near the Columbia River in 1936. This photograph appears with the titled, "States Line Freighter Iowa Wrecked With Loss of Its Entire Crew," Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 1936: 2 Handwritten text from negative sleeve: 3228 -- S.S. "West Cadron" [stamped:] JAN 14 1936 Text from newspaper caption: Caught in a ninety-mile-an-hour hurricane off the mouth of the Columbia River, the Iowa of the States Steamship Line was smashed to pieces yesterday. Capt. Elgar L. Yates, making his first voyage on the Iowa, and his entire crew of thirty-three men were lost. The gale was so terrific that a Coast Guard cutter which set out in an effort to effect rescue of the crew was unable to approach the vessel. Other ships also were reported in distress in the same vicinity during the most violent storm there in years. [Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 1936: 2] Handwritten on negative: WEST CADRON
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12116 ark:/21198/zz002h83rq
Subject
Harbors Ships--American Marines (Visual works)
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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