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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 78345 Burning of French Transport Vinh-Long, 16 December 1922 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) off Constantinople, Turkey, on 16 December 1922, with 482 survivors on board. She had rescued them that morning them from the Vinh-Long, which was afire in the Sea of Marmora. Note Bainbridge's ensign flying at half-mast. Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 585 pixels

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16 October 2002