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USS Milwaukee

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $19.95

Stock #:981278
Type: Postcard
Publisher: Edward H. Mitchell
Postmark: 1910 Sep-22
Postmark City: Milwaukee
Postmark State: WI
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:miss Orrila Greuness
312 Reservoir
Milwaukee, WI
Additional Details:
Protected Cruiser "Milwaukee". 600 officers and men. Displacement 9,500 tons. Speed, 22 knots. Bunker capacity 1,500 tons. Armor: Belt, 4 in; topsides, 4 in; deck, flat 2 in, slopes 3 in. Complement, 564. Length, 424 ft. Entered service in 1906, and deployed to the Pacific Ocean. On 13 January 1917, while aiding a grounded submarine, the cruiser grounded herself. The ship was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1919.

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