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SS Morro Castle Burnt and Shipwrecked Off The Coast of New Jersey, 1934
SS Morro Castle Burnt and Shipwrecked Off The Coast of New Jersey, 1934
By mid-morning, the ship was totally abandoned and its burning hull drifted ashore, coming to a stop
The ship comes to rest on the beach at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Firefighters work to extinguish the still-smoldering wreck.
New York Daily News photographer Larry Froeber is brought back to shore after collapsing and
no more than six would ever have to be used at any one time. When the emergency aboard the
Morro Castle occurred, the crew opened virtually all working hydrants, dropping the water pressure
or close the fire doors. More damning was the conclusion that, with a few notable exceptions, the
crew made no effort to direct passengers to safe pathways to the boat deck.
SS Morro Castle.
The wreck of the Morro Castle in the process of being pushed out to sea by salvage engineers.
The wreck is towed away to be scrapped, six months after the fire. March 14, 1935.