Press cuttings and typescript article on the loss of the BRITANNIA, and related photographs, 1941.
Two page article translated from "Diario do Norte" Maranhao (23 May 1941) - recounting the sinking of the Britannia. Included are an additional article from the Buenos Aires Herald (dated Sunday 4 June 1944), titled "An Open Boat"; and 5 photographs. Photographs: 2 Landscape photographs, one of Olho D'Agua and the other Maranhao, Brazil; 3 photographs of the survivors, 2 before shots taken in Maranhao and a final after shot, titled "Survivors".
Record Details
| Item reference: | HSR/Z/46; MS1970/075 MSS/70/075 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1941 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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