Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1945-07-02
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007503

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: England [underlined] / Navy [underlined]; typed on label: THE PRICE OF VICTORY: GHOST SHIPS / AT SOUTHEND / Every day at low tide the ghosts / of the river appear in the Thames, / a mile east of Southend Pier, / Essex. The ghosts are the hulks / of seven ships lost from a single / convoy at the peak period of / Germany’s attacks on British / shipping – a reminder of the / price of victory paid by the / British Merchant Navy. / PHOTO SHOWS:- the graveyard of / the ghost ships in the Thames / estuary at Southend. / The derelict bow half of the / cement coaster “BELVEDERE: rests / on the bed of the river. The stern / has been salvaged and towed away. / Spe Planet July 2 1945 PN; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK. / LB 52386

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / RIVER
Retouching: N