The battleship USS Kearsarge (BB-5) at Boston in October 1916, the Kearsage shows standard modifications to U.S. pre-dreadnoughts carried out after the world cruise of the Great White Fleet. Her bridgework has been drastically cut down and the canvas co
Categories: Ships and Submarines
 
 
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