File:Morro Castle 1.jpg

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SS Morro Castle (1930)

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Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article prior to its destruction by fire. Bart 05:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC). Image is widely available on the web with this resolution and on at least 3 sites with higher resolution so its inclusion here does not materially decrease the copyright holder's ability to exploit the image should it still be in copyright. The ship name is barely legible in the higher-resolution version cited above. That version appears to be a halftone so it is amost certain that the image was published somewhere.