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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42125

Hurricane at Apia, Samoa, 15-16 March 1889


"The Nipsic beached, wrecks of Trenton & Vandalia astern."
Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows the southeastern part of Apia Harbor after the storm's end. USS Nipsic is in the foreground and USS Vandalia is sunk at right, with USS Trenton wrecked alongside her.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Donation of Miss Elsie S. Kimberly, January 1958.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 April 2002