Long Tug LT 221 Collection

2003
Manuscript Collection #981
Creator(s)
Physical description
0.02 Cubic Feet, 15 items
Preferred Citation
Long Tug LT 221 Collection (#981), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
Access
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Administrative information
Custodial History

December 3, 2003, (unprocessed) 15 items, 0.02 cubic feet; Photographic prints (2003) from digital images of the U.S. Army Long Tug (LT 221), built by the Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1943, and sunk [probably by a mine] during World War II off the island of Sardinia in Italy, ca. 1943 - 1944, in its current position on the seabed in the Caligiari Gulf, South of S. Elia, Italy at a depth of approximately 50 meters; and compact disc. Donor: Andrea Concas

Source of acquisition

Gift of Andrea Concas

Processing information

Encoded by Mark Custer, March 17, 2008

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Key terms
Corporate Names
Marietta Manufacturing Company
Topical
Shipwrecks--Italy--Sardinia
Tugboats--Italy--Sardinia
Tugboats--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American