[Freighter "American" went on rocks at Los Angeles harbor pilot station]

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Local identifier: AAE-1618
Title: [Freighter "American" went on rocks at Los Angeles harbor pilot station]
Date: 1952 Dec. 29
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Associated Press
San Francisco Call Bulletin
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Ships-Freighters.
Written on front: "LB1) Long Beach, Calif. -- Dec. 27 -- Tugs win race --- Tugs this morning succeeded in freeing the large freighter 'American' which went on the rocks at the Los Angeles Harbor Pilot Station at 10:45 a.m. in heavy fog. The 'American', a 497-foot, 10,687 gross-ton vessel was not seriously damaged. (Associated Press Wirephoto) (Ev -- 0105 1952 CN)".
Newscopy: "Tugs Win Battle - Free Freighter from Rocks. Long Beach - Tugs are shown freeing the freighter American which went on rocks at Los Angeles Harbor Pilot Station in heavy fog Saturday. The 497-foot long, 10,687 gross-ton vessel was not seriously damaged. -- Associated Press Wirephoto."
"A.P. WirePhoto."
Language (code): eng
Genre: graphic
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Local subjects: Ships--Freighters.
Bibliographic Number: .b10361820
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:151163