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9535 U. S. Armored Cruiser "South Dakota
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U. S. ARMORED CRUISER "SOUTH
DAKOTA"-
Built at San Francisco by Union Iron Wks.
502 feet long by 69 feet 61/2 inches wide.
Mean draft 24 feet 1 inch.
Displacement 13,680 tons.
Speed 22 knots; horsepower 23,000.
Cost $3,750,00.
Launched July 21, 1904.
Two miltary masts and four funnels,
Complement of 41 officers and 791 men.
Main Battery-Four 8-in. B. L. R. guns in
turrets, also fourteen 6-in. R. F. in broad-
sides.
Secondary Battery-Eighteen 3-in. R. F.,
twelve 3-lb. S. A., two 1-lb. R. F., two 3-in.
F., four 30 caliber A, and two 30 caliber M,
with two 18-in. submerged torpedo tubes.
BRITTON & REY, LITHOGRAPHERS. S.F
PUBLISHERS OF PICTORIAL POST CARDS.
