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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.

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12 June 2001