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Antilles Survivors

Photograph of a lifeboat from Antilles
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Title: Survivors from S.S. Antilles
Caption: A boat load of survivors from the U.S. Army chartered transport Antilles, photographed while approaching another ship to be picked up. Their ship had been torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-62 on 17 October 1917, with the loss of 67 lives.
Catalog #: 41744
Donor: Photo courtesy of Captain L.R. Leahy, USN, now in the collections of Naval History and Heritage Command.
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