Photo #: NH 46164
USS Milwaukee (Cruiser # 21)
Looking aft from the wrecked cruiser's starboard bridge on 29
April 1919, more than two years after she went aground at Samoa
Beach, near Eureka, California, on 13 January 1917.
This view shows conditions on Milwaukee's boat deck, and
the pier used by salvagers to remove guns and equipment from
the ship. Note cowl ventilators, coal scuttles on the deck, empty
gun positions, and the separation in the deck just aft of amidships
where the ship's hull had broken.
Photographed by Emma B. Freeman, Eureka, California.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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