A Super-Junkyard for Battleships
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Titolo
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A Super-Junkyard for Battleships
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Article Title and/or Image Caption
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A Super-Junkyard for Battleships. Torches Cut 18-Inch Steel Armor into Five-Foot Lenghts and Giant Shears Snip Destroyers Apart in Newest Industry
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Caption 1: Once the most powerful unit of the Atlantic fleet, the 13,500-ton battleship "Maine", is being ripped apart in the super-junkyard. At the right is the cruiser "Columbia"
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Caption 2: How the waterline belt of 11-inch hull armor is cut away is shown in this close-up view of the battleship "Maine". Above the armor belt-note the barbettes emptied of their six-imch rifles
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Caption 3: Tiny granddaddy of all successful submarines, the Holland "A-1 Plunger" is being scrapped on the deck of the partially dismantled monitor "Puritan"
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Caption 4: Arrows point to holes burned through 13-inch guns in the main battery ot the battleship "Wisconsin" to prevent possibility of their use as a deadly weapon
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Caption 5: With this machine to guide the oxyacetylene torch, the workman makes a clean, straight cut through a 25-ton strip of 11-inch hull armor, sawing it into five-foot lengths. The torch is moved by the mechanism along a chalk line
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1922-07
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pagine
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50-51
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Diritti
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
