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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 46155

Stranding of USS Milwaukee, 13 January 1917


Sailors haul in men via breeches buoy as the crew of USS Milwaukee (Cruiser # 21) abandons ship after she went aground at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, on 13 January 1917.

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24 May 2004