WWilliam H. Tripp Collection T-401
Mr. Gomes’s Baby on Bark Wanderer, in line tub cover
William H. Tripp (1880-1959, American)
3 x 4 inch film negative

GOMES BABY
Mr. Gomes, first mate of the New Bedford bark Wanderer, invited his family aboard to bid farewell on the eve of his departure in August 1924. The Gomes baby relaxed in an improvised shipboard day-care facility . Though they were prepared for a long separation, Mr. Gomes returned home only a day or two later, after the Wanderer was wrecked in a storm on Buzzard’s bay, with all hands saved.