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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 46218

USS Memphis
(Armored Cruiser # 10)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph from a contemporary publication, showing the ship wrecked at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she was thrown ashore by tidal waves on the afternoon of 29 August 1916.
This photograph was some days after the incident, while initial salvage operations were underway.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 

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Image posted 6 January 2005