Ablaze in Lewes Harbor: The Last Cruise of the SS Lenape - Softcover

On November 17, 1925, the passenger-cargo steamship SS Lenape left New York City on a routine trip to Jacksonville, Florida. Late that night, off the coast of New Jersey, fire broke out in the cargo hold and the Clyde Lines Steamer made a harrowing dash across the mouth of the Delaware Bay for Lewes, Delaware, where it ended up aground and ablaze. Details of that fateful night are recounted here, weaving contemporary reports with the perspective of a young woman passenger and her three sons, as recorded in her journal.