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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 78342

Burning of French Transport Vinh-Long, 16 December 1922


Lifeboats pick up survivors of the burning ship, in the Sea of Marmora, Turkey, during the morning of 16 December 1922. The boat in the center appears to be largely swamped.
Photographed from USS Bainbridge (DD-246).

Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 October 2002