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Iowa-Class Battleship?


56 posted on 01/25/2005 3:00:18 PM PST by Josef1235 (My blog: http://josef-a-k.blogspot.com)
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USS San Francisco - heavy cruiser.
63 posted on 01/25/2005 3:10:39 PM PST by ross_poldark
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Cruiser.
64 posted on 01/25/2005 3:10:45 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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Iowa-Class Battleship?

No, heavy cruiser. Built at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the 1930s. Here's a photo, same vintage as the painting, of her coming back to Mare Island to repair Battle of Guadacanal damage. Cicles are shell hits on side (Stbd) shown.

122 posted on 01/25/2005 8:04:37 PM PST by IonImplantGuru (PhD, School of Hard Knocks)
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