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Description
Photographies of passengers and crew evacuating from the steamship FALABA. The ship was on her way from Liverpool to Sierra Leone when she was sunk by U 28 under the command of KapLt Georg-Günther von Forstner on 28 March 1915. Her wreck lies some 38 miles to the west of the Smalls, Pembrokeshire.
Source:
Helmolt, Hans. "Der Krieg zur See." Der Weltkrieg in Bildern und Dokumenten nebst einem Kriegstagebuch. Zweite Folge. Leipzig: Johannes M. Meulenhoff Verlag, 1915. 86-7.
Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek. Signatur I-37593/2.
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