Sunday, June 07, 2026

A Day Trapped at Arica: The USS Wateree and the Tsunami, 1868

You wake in your hammock below deck to the bell and the smell of coal smoke and bilge. You roll out, splash brackish water on your face, and climb to the deck. The bay is glassy and gray. The great rock of El Morro looms black against a pale sky...


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