135 years ago, on the 16th of March 1889, a cyclone destroyed in Apia, Samoa, a squadron of the German Imperial Navy and the US Navy. These - three ships of each navy plus a British corvette - were deployed to Samoa in conflict, in which east of these imperialistic powers wanted to occupy Samoa.
The US Navy deployed the corvette USS Trenton and the sloops USS Vandalia and USS Nipsic . Only Nipsic could be beached and salvaged latter, the other two ships were sunk.
Here, my model of USS Trenton in 1/700:
Corvette USS Trenton (1/700, scratch built)
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