The S.S. Ethie

The Steamship Ethie came to grief, as they used to say, just
over 98 years ago in December 1919.

Everyone was saved, by the way. The captain was running out of coal
for his engines, and the ship was covered in ice in a winter storm, so
he put her almost ashore right here. The ninety-odd people got ashore
in a rigged up "bosun's-chair." The youngest of them was an infant;
she died, the last survivor, just ten years ago.

I took this picture of her, or of some of what was left of her 28
years ago, in mid-1990. As almost always, I held the camera
non-plumb and so I've turned the picture a little to get a better
semblance of a horizontal horizon.

T-Max TMY-400 film, in Minolta X370.