Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 43759

USS Wateree
(1864-1868)

Stranded at Arica, Chile, after she was washed ashore by the 13 August 1868 tidal wave.
The Peruvian corvette America is partially visible in the distance.

Courtesy of Mrs. A.B. Hendrickson, from the collection of her father, the late Rear Admiral Luther G. Billings.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Note:
This image may be reversed. The orientation of ships is the opposite of that of other photographs of this incident.

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

12 June 2001