U.S. Navy training ship Severn at sea full sails

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NIT kaiuitun Coppisht 1905 by Erigia Muller. U. S. NAVY. Training Ship "Severn."

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ARTISTIC ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN, TRAINING SHIP “SEVERN.” 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 1,175 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. 20, 1898.