Photo #: NH 78348
Burning of French Transport Vinh-Long, 16 December 1922
U.S. and French Navy boats alongside USS Bainbridge (DD-246)
to transfer Vinh-Long's survivors to the French armored
cruiser Waldeck Rousseau, off Constantinople, Turkey,
16 December 1922. Vinh-Long had burned in the sea of Marmora
earlier that day.
Note the Turkish rowing boats at right and in the center background.
Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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