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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 46149

Stranding of USS Milwaukee, 13 January 1917


USS Milwaukee (Cruiser # 21) stranded at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, on 13 January 1917, as crewmen are brought ashore by breeches buoy.
The ship appears to be valving steam from her after two smokestacks.
Note the size of the tree trunk in the foreground.

Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1931.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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24 May 2004