U.S. Battleship Kentucky

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Stock #:397930
Type: Postcard
Publisher: Britton & Rey
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Built at Newport News, Va. Length 368 feet; beam 72 feet 2 1/2 inches. Mean draft of 23 1/2 feet. Displacement of 11,520 tons. Speed 16.9 knots; cost $2,250,000. Commissioned May 15, 1900. Complement of 35 officers and 651 men. Main Battery - Four 13-in. B.L.R. in turrets and four 8-in. B.L.R. in superposed turrets; with fourteen 5-in. R.F. in broadsides. Secondary Battery - Twenty 6-lb. R.F., four 1-lb., two 3-in. F., four .30 cal. A. Also one 18-in. torpedo tube above water

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