Messageries Maritimes Steamer.

Albumen print, SS Steamer Saghalien.

1914. SS Saghalien was a French passenger steamer built in 1880 which sailed in 1914 to rescue French citizens from Turkey before it entered the Great War. On the 10th November 1915 Saghalien was scuttled with an old French battleship at Seddul Bahr to form a breakwater for the Dardanelles landings. A handwritten note at the right edge reads "From Ceylon to Shanghai per Messageries Maritimes Steamer". Ca. 1914. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4" albumen print with sml rubbed spot at upper edge, mounted to larger card with some slt ripples; o/w vgc. Item #15194

HKD970.

Price: $125.00