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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 101694

USS Inca
(IX-229)

Aground at Okinawa, next to a small floating drydock, after they were blown ashore by a typhoon in October 1945. Another "Liberty" ship is in the left distance.
In the original image, Inca's hull number (IX-229) is clearly visible in the dark patch on her starboard bow.

Courtesy of Dr. Herbert F. Gabriel, DDS, 1987.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 3 April 2006