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US Navy, Training Ship "Severn"

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Stock #:398244
Type: Postcard
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Practice ship for the cadets of the Naval Academy. A sailing vessel, built at Bath, Me. It is 175 feet long and 37 feet broad, displacing 1,176 tons of water. Cost, about $112,600. It is armed with six 4-inch rapid-firing guns, besides a secondary battery of smaller rapid-firers. Keel was laid Aug. 2d, 1898

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