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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 46317

USS Arkansas
(Battleship # 33)

A young woman visitor sighting one of the ship's 5"/51 guns, in New York Harbor, 23 April 1919.
Note the small sub-caliber spotting rifle atop the gun barrel; splinter matresses hung over the gun; and door with porthole in the lower right.
In the background are USS Jouett (Destroyer # 41), at left, and USS Meredith (Destroyer # 165).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 February 2004