DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 46283
USS Michigan (BB-27)
View looking aft from atop Turret # 2, showing her collapsed
"cage" foremast, which had buckled in an Atlantic storm
on 15 January 1918.
Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 28
January 1918.
Note details of armored conning tower, and tripod-mounted rangefinder
atop it.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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