[Introduction to Sale Catalogue of] Artefacts recovered from the Wreck of the SS Medina
SS MEDINA
26 May 1988. Sale Code: nil.
FINE COPY
Published: Sotheby's Billingshurst, 1988
Stock code: 26903
Price: £40.00
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
This scarce pamphlet accompanies the exhibition of artefacts and announces the sale. The SS Median was lost when torpedoed by a German U-boat off Devon on 28 April 1917. In 1987 Consortium Recovery salvaged eighty cases of possessions belonging to Lord Carmichael, Governor of Bengal. VERY SCARCE.