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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 49915

USS Memphis
(Armored Cruiser # 10)

View of the ship's wreck at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in August 1917. She had been cast ashore by a tidal wave on 29 August 1916, and by this time had been largely stripped of guns, supplies and equipment.

Collection of John G. Krieger, 1967. He was serving in USS Eagle when the photograph was taken.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 7 January 2005