The British steamship La Plata caught in a tsunami offshore from Water Island immediately following the Great Virgin Islands earthquake, November 18, 1867, artist's impression, detail.

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, December 15, 2017.

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The West India Earthquakes - Effect of the Tidal Wave at St. Thomas on the steamer "La Plata."
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Harper's Weekly Magazine, January 25, 1868, p. 49.

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Cropped from the fuller image, also available here.

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