LEHIGH: 1919 - Newsstand promo w/ sinking photos from 1941 - Stationery & cachets Amazingly she wasn't scrapped until

Amazingly she wasn't scrapped until 2004

When the oil crisis hit in 1973

it is from around the time of the ship’s maiden voyage in 1956

Initially the ARGENTINA MARU had three classes with a large 3rd Class area for immigrants

LEHIGH: 1919 - Newsstand promo w/ sinking photos from 1941 - Stationery & cachets Amazingly she wasn't scrapped untilUnited States Lines A 12" by 19" newsstand promo issued by the "Illustrated Current News" showing the dramatic sinking of the S. S. LEHIGH. According to the caption, the LEHIGH was sunk off the coast of Sierra Leone by a torpedo on October 19, 1941. All forty four crew escaped to lifeboats. One had the wherewithal to grab his camera and snap these photos of the ship going down. The LEHIGH was well marked with neutrality flags. The German U boat