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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97923

USS Nipsic
(1879-1913)

View of the ship's after hull, taken in the floating drydock at Honolulu, Hawaii, circa August 1889, while under repair for damage received during the 15-16 March 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa.
Note her missing rudderpost and rudder, badly bent propeller, and "weathered" copper hull sheathing.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 March 2001