LEHIGH: 1919 - Newsstand promo w/ sinking photos from 1941 - Stationery & cachets Farrell Line's AFRICAN COMET

Farrell Line's AFRICAN COMET

it is from around the time of the ship’s maiden voyage in 1956

and a blackened hull

a habit formed during the Gold Rush years of the 1890s

as well as destination info

LEHIGH: 1919 - Newsstand promo w/ sinking photos from 1941 - Stationery & cachets Farrell Line's AFRICAN COMETUnited States Lines A 12" by 19" newsstand promo issued by the "Illustrated Current News" showing the dramatic sinking of the S. S. LEHIGH. According to the caption, the LEHIGH was sunk off the coast of Sierra Leone by a torpedo on October 19, 1941. All forty four crew escaped to lifeboats. One had the wherewithal to grab his camera and snap these photos of the ship going down. The LEHIGH was well marked with neutrality flags. The German U boat