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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 46160
Stranding of USS Milwaukee, 13 January 1917
Surfboat broaches in the heavy Pacific surf,
during rescue operations just after USS Milwaukee (Cruiser
# 21) went aground at Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, 13
January 1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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