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Vacuum (2) - (1920-1944)
"Vaccum (2)" sinks Norwegian freighter "Solvang", New Jersey

OIL TANKER RAMS AND SINKS NORWEIGIAN FREIGHTER. (Newspaper January 28th, 1926)
First photographs of the recent ship disaster off thë Delaware.Breakwater which stopped  radio broadcasting during the Trans-Atlantic tests Monday night last, when the Oil tanker Vacuum struck and sank the Norweigian freíghter Solvang. In a thrilling mid-night rescue all but two of the twenty-nine men in the crew of the ill-fated freighter were saved. The Vaccum landed the twenty-seven survivors at Paulsboro N.J.
(By Acme)