Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger. Pictured is Clair E. Driscoll of Los Angeles, 31, one of only three survivors of the ill-fated U.S. Army freighter Clarksdale Victory. The 7000-ton Army freighter, commanded by Capt. Gerald R. Laugesen, cracked in half under pounding waves after running aground off Graham Island southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska with the after-section vanishing in a gale-lashed sea off the coast of British Columbia. Out of 51 crewmen on board, only three survived. Photograph dated November 26, 1947.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Sailors--United States Survival at sea--British Columbia--Graham Island Collisions at sea--British Columbia--Graham Island Cargo ships--British Columbia--Graham Island Shipwrecks--British Columbia--Graham Island Graham Island (B.C.) Ketchikan (Alaska) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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