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NH 92506 USS Kentucky (BB-6)

Photo #: NH 92506 USS Kentucky (BB-6)
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Title: USS Kentucky (BB-6)
Description: Ready for launching at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 24 March 1898. Note chalk marks on her hull plating, indicating the planned location of fittings and gun ports. Courtesy of the Filson Club, Louisville, KY. Gift of Salem H. Ford. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 92506
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