U.S.S. "Mississippi" in drydock
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U.S.S. "Mississippi" in drydock
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Giving a Battleship a New Suit
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Caption: When a battleship requires a new suit, the fitting-room must be a large one. This is the U.S.S. Mississippi in drydock on the Pacific coast
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THE expression “like a fish out of
water’ has become, in our every-
day speech, a simile for awkwardness
and strangeness. It stands for the acme
of helplessness. But a dreadnought
out of water looks less like a floating
fort and more like a ship, as the picture
of the U.S.S. Mississippi in drydock at
Hunter's Point, San Francisco,
shows. Notice the graceful,
yachtlike lines of her 30,000-ton
hull as she lies there. She is the
very essence of potential power—
and of temporary impotence.
The drydock is known as the
No. 2 dock, and has been used for
the last year for repairing de-
stroyers. The Mississippi is,
- however, the first battleship
_ to enter it. Some fear was
felt at first as to whether she
would be able to pass the
approaches, but she sailed
in without a hitch.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1920-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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68
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 96, n. 2, 1920
