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NH 105592 USS Buffalo

Photo #: NH 105592 USS Buffalo
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Title: USS Buffalo
Description: (1898-1927, later AD-8) Assisting the grounded three-masted wooden cannery bark Paramita in Lost Harbor, Akun Island, Alaska in May or June 1914. Paramita was run aground in Lost Harbor after flooding from an earlier grounding in a storm at Ugamak Island on 14 May 1914 ignited lime in her holds. Heavy seas later destroyed the wreck. Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, donated by Louisa R. Alger, 1962. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 105592
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