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The first artists to remember the tragedy of the Morro Castle were the members of the Trio Matamoros of Santiago de Cuba, with the song "El desastre del Morro Castle" (1934). The Morro Castle disaster occurred when the musical Anything Goes, a comedy set aboard an ocean liner, was about to open. Under the circumstances, the producers decided ...
Hundreds of survivors from the S.S. Morro Castle disaster are brought ashore and cared for at the Spring Lake firehouse in this Asbury Park Press clipping published on Monday, September 10, 1934.
Morro Castle (1930) – During the early morning hours of 8 September, while en route from Havana to New York, the passenger liner caught fire and burned, killing 137 passengers and crew members out of the 549 aboard.
A few more images would certainly be nice, especially one of the shots of the Morro Castle after it beached itself in Asbury Park. The library of Congress has two available images of the ship. Go to LOC Prints and Photograph Division search page and type in Morro Castle and a number of images come up. Most of the ship are restricted, but there ...
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The New Jersey Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Beach Haven, New Jersey, on Long Beach Island.It opened its doors to the public on July 3, 2007. Its main areas of focus are shipwrecks off the New Jersey coast and their salvaged artifacts, scuba diving and the diving community, notable maritime incidents in New Jersey waters, and the history of the United States Life-Saving Service and ...
SS Morro Castle may refer to: SS Morro Castle (1900) A ship launched by the Ward Line and scrapped in 1926. SS ...
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%.