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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 46158

Stranding of USS Milwaukee, 13 January 1917


Spectators watch rescue operations, just after USS Milwaukee (Cruiser # 21) went aground at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, on 13 January 1917.
Photographed by Emma B. Freeman, Eureka, Calif.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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24 May 2004