Photo #: NH 46157
Stranding of USS Milwaukee, 13 January 1917
Rescue operations in progress just after USS Milwaukee
(Cruiser # 21) went aground at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California,
on 13 January 1917.
Note the boat between ship and shore, and the large number of
men on the wrecked cruiser's decks.
Photographed by Emma B. Freeman, Eureka, Calif.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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