DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 61238
USS Kearsarge (Battleship # 5)
Underway in a harbor during the early 1900s. Kearsarge was painted this way when she visited Europe
in 1903, and this photograph may have been taken at about that
time.
Note the semaphore signalling "paddles" mounted on
her main topmast.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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