Photograph of SS 'Vestfold' (Vestfold Corp/Johan Rasmussen & Co.), torpedoed off Iceland

B/HAR/13/161/7

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Silver gelatin print by W.E. Williams, dated 17 January 1943. Caption on verso reads '21,000 tons of whale oil going up after being torpedoed off Iceland'. Vestfold was travelling in convoy HX-222 when she was hit by German sub U-48.