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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59922

USS Memphis
(Armored Cruiser # 10)

Ship's wreck at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in February 1929.
She had been stranded by a tidal wave on 29 August 1916. Though her wreck had been sold years before this photograph was taken, not made much progress had been made in breaking her up.
Photographed by the U.S. Minister to the Dominican Republic.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 8 January 2005