The U. S. S. Arkansas
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The U. S. S. Arkansas
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Shades of the Norsemen
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PROBABLY nothing that man has in-
vented took so early and kept so long
the same shape as the ships in which he
sails. Lief Ericsson, when he set the first
European foot on American soil, came across
the seas in a high-prowed vessel not so un-
like that with the fish king figurehead just
above. Divest the craft of bridge and
smokestack and she, a modern pleasure
craft on the Rhine, much patronized by
our doughboys, might be a large edition
of the ship of the Norse sea-rover.
Above this German idea of a joy boat we
have placed for contrast the U. S. S.
Arkansas, which, with her waterline length
of 554 feet and 93 feet beam, could have
swung the Norseman at her davits. She
is not quite the latest thing in marine
architecture but a fighting ship such as
the great Lief never dreamed of even in
his most ambitious sea-going days. But
the model that he used in that far-off time
has lived through the years and will do
50 as long as ships float on the seas.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Central Photo News Service (image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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25
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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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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 5, 1919
