US Battleship "Wisconsin"

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Stock #:298893
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Britton & Rey
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Series 9519
Built at San Francisco by Union Iron Works. 368 feet long by 72 feet 2 1/2 inches wide. Mean draft 23 1/2 feet. Displacement 11.552 tons. Speed on trial 17.17 knots. Horsepower 12,452. Cost $2,674,950. Launched Nov. 26, 1898. Commissioned Feb. 4, 1901. Two military masts and two funnels abreast. Complement of 34 officers and 669 men. Main battery - Four 13-in. B.L.R. in turrets: also fourteen 6 in R.F. broadside. Secondary battery-Sixteen 6-lb R.F., six 1-lb, two 3-in F and four 30 caliber A. with four 18-in. torpedo tubes above water

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