SS HAGOOD Collection

1922-1942, undated; 1942
Manuscript Collection #1034
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Creator(s)
Hagood (Ship)
Physical description
0.002 Cubic Feet, 27 items , consisting of photographic prints on album pages
Preferred Citation
SS Hagood Collection (#1034), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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Album (1922, 1939, 1942, undated) of photographic prints taken by an unidentified seaman, aboard the American armed merchant vessel SS HAGOOD, mostly during its voyages across the North Atlantic and North Sea to Great Britain during the period of October – December 1942 during World War II.

Biographical/historical information

The SS HAGOOD Collection documents the history of an armed American merchant vessel, of 6,866 tons, built in 1919 at the Sparrow Point, Maryland, shipyard, by the Bethlehem S. B. Corporation, and fitted as a bulk oil tanker. During the early years of World War II, in 1939-1942, the Hagood made several voyages across the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea to deliver oil to Great Britain. It was during one of these voyages, in October - December 1942 that a seaman aboard the Hagood took most of the amateur photographs contained in this collection. The Hagood apparently survived World War II and into 1946.

Source:

Lloyd's Registers. Steamers & Motor Ships, 1944-1945.

Scope and arrangement

The SS HAGOOD Collection consists of 29 black and white photographic prints attached to 14 photograph album pages (7 sheets) by corners. The photographer has provided brief captions for most of the photographs on the adjacent album pages. The photographs document the voyages of the armed American merchant vessel SS HAGOOD intermittently from 1919 to 1942 as it travelled to and from Germany and to Great Britain; however, all but two of the photographs relate to the period October - December 1942. The photographs document the conditions, especially the dangers, facing merchant seamen in the war zones during World War II, including bomb damage, dive bomb attacks, submarines, and "heavy" weather. Also documented are views of the HMS VALOROUS sailing in convoy; an unidentified Polish destroyer; bomb damaged London docks; Loch Ewe, Scotland; and the White Cliffs of Dover. The other two photographs are of the destroyer USS REID (DD 292) passing through the Kiel Canal, Germany, in 1922, and an unidentified U.S. destroyer passing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, in 1939.

Administrative information
Source of acquisition

Gift of Judith Todman, Manager, Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, New York, NY

Processing information

Encoded by Lindsay Flood, April 1, 2008; Preliminary inventory by Thomas Hall (intern), Processing completed by Jonathan Dembo on 6/26/2019.

Copyright notice

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

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Key terms
Personal Names
Ewe, Loch (Scotland)
Corporate Names
United States. Navy
Topical
Destroyers (Warships)--Poland
Destroyers (Warships)--United States
Submarines (Ships)--Germany
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945--England--London
Places
Kiel Canal (Germany)--History, Military--20th century
Container list
Box 1 Folder a Item 1 Polish Destroyer N. Sea (8 November 1942); Verso: "Polish Destroyer -91 N. Sea Nov. 9, 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 2 H.M.S. VALOROUS Serenading SS HAGOOD, First American Ship in London Since 1939 (10 November 1942); Verso: "-91 H.M.S. VALOROUS Serenading SS HAGOOD, First American Ship in London Since Aug. 1939. Nov. 10, 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 3 U.S. Destroyer Chasing Sub N. Sea "Port Beam" (8 November 1942); Verso: "U.S. Destroyer ? [unidentified] -91 N. Sea Nov. 8, 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 4 U.S. Destroyer Chasing Sub N. Sea (8 November 1942); Verso: "-91 Bomb on Stern SS HAGOOD N. Sea. Nov. 8, 1942", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 5 Dirty Weather (December 1942); Verso: "-91 N. Atlantic Dec. 1942", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 6 Dirty Weather (December 1942); Verso: "-91 N. Atlantic Dec. 1942", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 7 Dirty Weather SS HAGOOD N. Atlantic (December 1942); Verso: "N. Atlantic -91 Dec. 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 8 Dirty Weather SS HAGOOD N. Atlantic (December 1942); Verso: "N. Atlantic -91 Dec. 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 9 Dirty Weather SS HAGOOD N. Atlantic (December 1942); Verso: "N. Atlantic -91 Dec. 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 10 Dirty Weather SS HAGOOD N. Atlantic (December 1942); Verso: "N. Atlantic -91 Dec. 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 11 North Atlantic SS HAGOOD (December 1942); Verso: "N. Atlantic -91 Dec. 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 12 North Atlantic SS HAGOOD (December 1942); Verso: "Heavy Weather N. Atlantic -91 Dec. 6/21 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 13 Loch Ewe, Scotland (1 December 1942) SS HAGOOD; Verso: "Loch Ewe, Scotland Dec. 1, 1942. 06", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 14 Loch Ewe, Scotland (1 December 1942) SS HAGOOD; Verso: "Loch Ewe, Scotland Dec. 1, 1942. T6-.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 15 Bombed Out Dock London [Tilbury] United Kingdom (11 November 1942); Verso: "Tilbury, Eng. Bombed-out Dock T6-.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 16 Bombed Out Dock London [Tilbury] United Kingdom (11 November 1942); Verso: "Bombed-out Dock -91 Tilbury, Eng.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 17 U.S.S. ? [Unidentified ship approaching Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor] (1939); Verso: Blank, 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 18 Unidentified ship (1939). Verso: Blank, 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 19 Unidentified ship (1939). Verso: Blank, 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 20 [White Cliffs of Dover with Flock of Seagulls] (1942); Verso: Blank, 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 21 65° N -10° W 11 P.M. (26 October 1942); Verso: "65° N 10° W -91- Oct. 26, 1942. Taken by Aurora Northern Lights 11 P.M.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 22 N.E. of Iceland (October 1942) Verso: "X.P. -91 Sub to Port N.E. [Signal Flags] of Iceland Oct. 1942", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 23 Bombing Attack North Sea (8 November 1942) Verso: "North Sea Nov. 8, 1942 -91 Dive Bomber Attack.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 24 SS HAGOOD (8 November 1942); Verso: "-91 Bomb on Starboard Bow. SS HAGOOD N. Sea Nov. 8, 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 25 Sub Submerging, North Atlantic (1 November 1942); Verso: "Sub Submerging N. Atlantic -91 Nov. 1, 1942.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 26 Description: Lifeboat, North Atlantic (undated) Verso: "-91.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 27 S.S. HAGOOD: upper deck equipment, mast, and flags (1942) Verso: "-91.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 28 SS HAGOOD Repairing Engine at Sea (December 1942); Verso: "-91 Repairing Engine SS HAGOOD Dec. 1942 N. Atlantic.", 1922, 1939, 1942
Box 1 Folder a Item 29 U.S.S. Reid in Kiel Canal , Germany (1922); Verso: "601 U.S.S. Reid [DD-292] in Keil [sic] Canal, Germany 1922.", 1922, 1939, 1942