Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Kearsarge Class

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Fwd spotting top of Kearsarge Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky.

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Crane Ship No 1 (Ex BB USS Kearsarge), pictured during the re-gunning of New Mexico Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Idaho at Puget Sound Navy Yard in the late 1920's.

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Kearsarge Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky pictured with Auxiliary Cruiser USS Prairie at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1901...*Note flags are at half mast. (The death of President William McKinley).

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Kearsarge Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky pictured with Auxiliary Cruiser USS Prairie at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1901.

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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kearsarge pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1904.

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Numerous unidentified vessels pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1901, with Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kearsarge in the right background.

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Lead Ship, Protected Cruiser USS Columbia (left) pictured with Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Texas (foreground) and alongside her, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kearsarge at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1904.

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Kearsarge Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky pictured in 1900.

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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kearsarge pictured on April 8th 1900.

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Kearsarge Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky pictured in 1901.