The Great 12-inch Guns And Brave Gunner Boys - Sea-Going Battleship “Iowa”
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
The Great 12-inch Guns And Brave Gunner Boys - Sea-Going Battleship “Iowa”
ca. 1917
Letterpress print
Image: 7 x 6.7 cm
Overall: 8.2 x 14 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
2008.0530.0036
Inscriptions verso (printed in black): No. 27-THE GREAT 12-INCH GUNS AND BRAVE GUNNER BOYS-SEA-GOING / BATTLESHIP "IOWA" /
The "Iowa" is a battleship of the second / class. Her engines are 12,105 horsepower, her / displacement 11,340 tons, and her registered / speed 17.1 knots. Fourteen-inch armor fur-/nishes her passive defense; her equipment / for active defense consists of four 12-inch / guns, eight 8-inch, six 4-inch rapid-fire, / twenty 6-pounders, rapid-fire, and four tor-/pedo tubes. / [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
The "Iowa" is a battleship of the second / class. Her engines are 12,105 horsepower, her / displacement 11,340 tons, and her registered / speed 17.1 knots. Fourteen-inch armor fur-/nishes her passive defense; her equipment / for active defense consists of four 12-inch / guns, eight 8-inch, six 4-inch rapid-fire, / twenty 6-pounders, rapid-fire, and four tor-/pedo tubes. / [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
