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Photo #: NH 43999
USS Wateree (1864-1868)
Beached at Arica, Chile, 430 yards above the usual high water
mark, after she was deposited there by a tidal wave on 13 August
1868.
Her iron hull was reasonably intact, but salvage was not economical,
and she was sold where she lay.
Courtesy of Murray Greene Day.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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