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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 66287
USS Great Northern (ID # 4569)
Collision damage to the ship's stern, 1918.
This is probably damage received when Great Northern collided
with the British ship Brinkburn at 2.30 AM on 3 October
1918, while about 500 miles off the coast of France. Seven Army
passengers were killed in that accident.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Image posted 10 January 2006