#delaware class

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"The frigate 'ROANOKE,' subsequently to the Civil war, was roconstructed at the Brooklyn navy yard. Her masts were removed; her sides armored: wod her broadside battery was replaced by an all-big-gun armament of six heavy guns mounted in three armored turrets. The correspondent who sent us the above illustration suggests that she was the first of the "Dreadnoughts."

U. S. S. 'ROANOKE,' 1863. is this the prototype of the modern dreadnought."

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USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29) passing through the darien area of the Panama Canal.

Photographed on February 15, 1923.

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USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29) passing under the Brooklyn bridge, New York.

Photographed by Jones & Pruitt in the 1910s.

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View of the mastheads of USS DELAWARE (BB-28), flying the American flag.

Photographed by Machinist John G. Krieger, USN, in October 1919.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 64938

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USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29) at anchor.

Photographed in 1918.

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USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29) underway.

Photographed in the early 1910s.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 73775

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USS NORTH DAKOTA (BB-29) running at full speed during her sea trials.

Photographed on November 4, 1909.

Historic New England: PC047.02.4870.19842

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New-York tribune, October 31, 1909.

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