| U. S. Battleship "Vermont" |
| Built at Quincy, Mass. Length 450 feet; beam 76 feet 10 inches. Mean draft 24 1/2 feet. Displacement 16,00 tons. Speed 19 knots; cost $4,179,000. Completed December 20, 1960. Complement of 41 officers and 840 men. Main Battery -- Four 12-in. B. L. B. and eight 8-in. B. L. R. in turrets, with twelve 7-in B. L. R. Broadside. Second Battery -- Twenty 3-in. R. F., twelve 3-lb. S. A., four 1-lb. two 3-in. F., six .30 cal. A and two .30 cal. M. Also four 21 in. submerged torpedo tubes. |
| Postcard by Britton & Rey, Lithographers, S.F. Publishers of Pictorial Post Cards. |
