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9552
U. S. Protected Cruiser Milwaukee.
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Post Garu
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ONE GENU
10AM
U. S. PROTECTED CRUISER "MILWAU.
KEE” (Unarmored Steel Vessel)
Built at San Francisco by Union Iron Wks.
424 feet long by 66 feet wide; mean draft
2242 feet; displacement 9700 tons.
Speed on trial 22.22; horsepower 24,166.
Cost $2,825,000.
Launched Sept. 10, 1904.
Two military masts and four funnels.
Complement of 36 officers and 627 men.
Main Battery-Fourteen 6-in. R. F. guns.
Secondary Battery-Eighteen 3-in. R. F.,
twelve 3-lb. S. A., eight 1-lb. R. F., two 3-in.
F., four 30 caliber A and two 30 caliber M
guns.
Bremertom. vask.
Dear Friend,
will drop fai a line to let you
know I am still alive. I left home
last augast, Floyd, is with me on the
ship. sam signal bay suppose you
know what that is expect to come
home on a fullough in ang on Sept
Forging me for not writing to you hope
the Folks. Hello hut doit relorlam gam com-
Pokereturpunk, want to supprispelen
ANUSS Militatile lana, gry
hnemely
Miss Ermire, Paine.
Sos. Gatos
balif
vir & REX LITHOGRAPHERS
