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SINGLE-TURRET HARBOR-DEFENSE MONITOR "ARKANSAS"

Length, 252 feet. Breadth, 50 feet. Mean Draft, 12 feet 6 inches. Displacement, 3,225 tons. Speed, 12.03 knots. Bunker Capacity, 344 tons. Batteries: Main Battery, two 12 inch breech-loading rifles, four 4-inch rapid fire guns. Secondary battery, three six-pounder semi-automatic guns, four 1-pounder automatic guns, four 1-pounder rapid fire guns, two automatic guns, caliber .30. Armor: Belt, 11 inches; turrets, 10 inches; barbettes, 11 inches; deck 1 1/2 inches. Complement: 13 officers, 209 men. Built at Newport News, Virginia. Launched November 10, 1900.

Photo copyright 1906, by Enrique Muller

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