This page features all the miscellaneous images we have related to the wreck of USS Memphis.
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Photo #: NH 83188 USS Brooklyn (Armored Cruiser # 3) Handbill advertisement for the musical comedy "Seventh Wife", presented by the ship's crew at the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai, China, on 10-11 November 1916. The show was performed to benefit the families of men lost when USS Memphis was wrecked at at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 29 August 1916. Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, 1974. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 99946 USS Memphis (Armored Cruiser # 10) Air port salvaged from the ship's wreck after she was driven ashore by a tidal wave at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 29 August 1916. By letter of 17 October 1917 Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels offered this object to the ship's Sponsor, Mrs. R.N. (Annie Keith Frazier) Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, as a possible momento. See Photo # NH 99947 for a photograph of that letter. Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 540 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 99947 USS Memphis (Armored Cruiser # 10) Letter of 17 October 1917 from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, offering an air port from the ship to the her Sponsor, Mrs. R.N. (Annie Keith Frazier) Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, as a possible momento. See Photo # NH 99946 for a photograph of the air port offered in this letter. Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 128KB; 570 x 765 pixels |
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For other views related to the loss of USS Memphis,
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions. |
Page made 10 January 2005