Photo #: NH 98372
USS Kearsarge (Battleship # 5)
Halftone of a photograph taken in 1899, while the ship was making
16.82 knots on trials off the U.S. East Coast.
Note that her broadside battery of five-inch guns had not yet
been installed.
Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by
N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).
Donation of David Shadell, 1987.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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