Spanish Civil War Postcard 013

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a wrecked cartoon ship on the ocean floor. The ship shows a large explosion on its front half. Above water, there is another ship in the distance and a large wave above the sunken ship. The ship above water is tilted and releases dark grey smoke. The ship above water is next to a large rock or island.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text and a labeled illustration. In the upper left corner, there is an illustration of a bomb with labels "Depth Bomb", "Lifting Ring", "Adjusting Screw", "Pistol & Depth Adjuster", "Detonator", "Length 33"", "Diameter 17½"", "Weight 400 lb", "Primer", and "300 lbs of Explosive". Full text includes "Depth Bomb Lifting Ring Adjusting Screw Pistol & Depth Adjuster Detonator Length 33" Diameter 17½" Weight 400 lb Primer 300 lbs of Explosive 90 Depth Bomb Sinking Pirate Submarine On September 14, 1937 an Anti-Piracy Patrol was established by Britain and France to stop under-sea piracy of merchant ships. Depth bombs proved the most effective method of fighting the submarines. Patrol boats would drop the bombs in a diamond formation and make a wide area of sea "unhealthy". The depth bomb is an iron drum fitted with a contraption for setting the depth at which it explodes. If it goes off anywhere near the sub, the effect is very great. Even if the charge does not actually land on top of the sub the explosion will give the undersea boat such a rocking that it may get out of control and sink, or rise to view! Depth bombs are dropped in two ways: by rolling from a chute (shown in picture) or by throwing from a small canon. Listening devices on the Patrol boats reveal the sub's location. To know the horrors of war is to want peace This is one of a series of 240 True Stories of Modern Warfare. Save to get them all. Copyright 1938, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 013

Rights

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyrights held by original creators of individual items in the collection are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), were transferred to New York University in November 2000 by the ALBA Board of Governors. Permission to publish or reproduce ALBA materials must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.

Type

Still Image

Creator

Tamiment Library

Date

c. 1936-1938
1980-2000s

Language

Spanish

Publisher

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archive

Identifier

tw_scp_000013
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War