US Armored Cruiser Washington

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***S 9537 U.S. Armored Cruiser "Washington " TRUCT

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Post Gard U. S. ARMORED CRUISER WASHINGTON Built at Camden, N. J., by N. Y. Ship Building Co. 502 feet long by 72 feet 22 inches wide. Mean draft 25 feet. Displacement 14,500 tons. Speed on trial 22.27 knots. Horsepower 27,152. Cost $4,035,000. Launched March 18, 1905. Commissioned August 7, 1907. Two military masts and four funnels. Complement of 40 officers and 789 men. Main Battery-Four 10-in. B. L. R. in tur- rets, also sixteen 6-in. R. F. in broadsides. Secondary Battery-Twenty-two 3-in. R. F. twelve 3-lb. S. A., two 1-lb. A., two 3-in. F., two .30 caliber A and two .30 caliber M. With four 21-in. submerged torpedo tubes. BRITTON & REY, LITHOGRAPHERS, S.F. PUBLISHERS OF PICTORIAL POST CARDS. TWO CENTS