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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42292

Samoan Hurricane of 15-16 March 1889


View looking to the southward from the eastern side of Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, showing driftwood and debris that lined the beach immediately after the storm.
The sunken wreck of USS Vandalia is visible at the far right edge of the photograph.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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18 March 2002