DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 42226
USS Wateree (1864-1868)
Beached at Arica, Chile, after she was washed ashore by a tidal
wave on 13 August 1868.
Partially dismasted ship stranded in the left distance is the
Peruvian warship America.
Halftone image, copied from the U.S. Naval Institute "Proceedings",
July 1926, page 1323.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 495 pixels
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