Andre Blanchard wrote:
It looks like I forogot the image in one of my postings. Here it is..

Andre Blanchard




Nice photos.

She looks like a contemporary of the cruiser Olympia, currently in
Philadelphia.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/ships_olympia.shtml
http://www.phillyseaport.org/ships_o..._thennow.shtml


Warships of that era always seem a curious combination of the modern
"steel" warships and their wooden predecessors.

~~R