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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 76632

USS Kearsarge (BB-5)

and
USS Kentucky (BB-6)

Midship section plan, through the conning tower at Frame 33, showing the ships as designed.
The arrangement of armor is depicted, along with one 5"/40 broadside gun, an 18-inch above-water torpedo tube, and the steering wheels in both the armored conning tower and the pilothouse.

Copied from R. Robinson, Naval Construction, 4th Edition, 1917, page 160-61.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 February 1999