USS Kentucky (BB-6) photographs, circa 1900.

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USS Kentucky (BB-6) photographs, circa 1900.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/551147636

This collection contains one half-tone image of the battleship USS Kentucky (BB-6) preparing for launch at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, on March 28, 1898. Image shows chalk marks on her hull plating, indicating the planned location of fittings and gun ports. The image is titled "No. 209 - The Battleship Kentucky on the Ways." Also included in this collection is a half-tone image of an unidentified battleship that has been dry-docked and is titled "No. 210 - A Battleship in Dry Dock." Both photographs were removed from a 5 x 7 picture book.

2 photographs

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7687553

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky (Ship)

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...