Stock ID #136933 Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta. VICTORIAN CONNECTION - PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM - CRUISE ON THE M. S. CITY OF RAYVILLE FIRST US VESSEL SUNK IN WWII.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.
Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.

Photograph Album - Port Said, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Goa, Marmagoa, Colombo, Madras, Rangoon, Calcutta.

no date. (circa 1935). Stock ID #136933

Personal photograph album of a voyage on the M.S. City of Rayville from Port Said to India and Burma. 61 black and white photographs neatly annotated each measuring 6.5 x 8.5cm. Original covers have been replaced with rather amateur cork covers and unlettered cloth tape spine. Some photographs are marked and stained but generally a very interesting album.

The album bears the name Nicholas Kyryczuk on the first leaf. It appears that Kyryczuk was a sailor on board the M.S. City of Rayville, (5,833 tons owned by American Pioneer Lines) an American registered freighter which was sunk by a German mine off Cape Otway on the south coast of Victoria in November 1940. the M.S. City of Rayville holds the dubious distinction of being the first US vessel sunk during World War II and having the first US seaman to be killed in the war among her crew. Loosely inserted in the album are two Australian newspaper clippings with stories about the sinking. Although this album covers a period before the sinking it is interesting nonetheless for the great interest that the photographer showed in the ports visited and the locals they observed.

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