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Photo #: NH 103360

Sinking of USS President Lincoln
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31 May 1918

Life boats and liferafts full of survivors, after President Lincoln was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-90. The boats appear to be towing the rafts.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. - USS President Lincoln Collection.

U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 8 December 2005