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9533 U. S. Armored Cruiser "West Virginia
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U. S. ARMORED CRUISER
HWEST VIRGINIA.”
Built at Newport News, Va.
Length 502 feet; beam 69 feet 612 inches.
Draft 24 feet 1 inch.
Displacement 13,680 tons.
Speed on trial 22.15 knots; cost $3,885,000.
Commissioned February 23, 1905.
Complement of 41 officers and 887 men.
Main Battery-Four 8-in. B. L. R. in tur-
rets; also fourteen 6-in. R. F. in broadsides.
Secondary Battery-Eighteen 3-in. R. F.,
twelve 3-lb. S. A., two 1-lb. R. F., two 3-in.
F. and six .30 cal. A.
With two 18-in. submerged torpedo tubes.
BRITTON & REY, LITHOGRAPHERS, S.F.
PUBLISHERS OF PICTORIAL POST CARDS.
