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Touching press photo of firefighters off-loading a corpse from the passenger ship S.S. Noronic, after a disastrous onboard fire in Toronto harbour the night of September 17th 1949.
Stamped on back:
NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO – Paris
On label:
Toronto Canada September 1949
Un incendie a éclaté à bord du “Noronic”, navire d’excursion sur les Grands Lacs Canadiens, causant l’un des plus grands désastres maritimes de l’histoire, depuis la fin du Titanic. Le feu éclata tandis que 512 passagers et 173 membres de l’équipage dormaient. 112 personnes ont été carbonisées, 95 sont manquantes.
Des pompiers enlèvent les corps des victimes.
New York Times Photos Mention obligatoire 19.9.49
LL corner creased. some paper missing top of label on back. Paper is 'curved'.
12,50 x 18 cm
It took just minutes for the S. S. Noronic to erupt into a blistering inferno that lit up the late-summer Toronto night in the early hours of September 17, 1949.
In just a couple of hours the racing, white-hot fire had claimed more than a hundred lives and gutted the ship, leaving the warped metal hull of the vast ship resting on the bottom of the shallow lake bed.
In the aftermath, the ship's crew, dangerous design, and lack of safety features would come under harsh criticism from the public and federal investigators.
