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This illustration shows the United States Battleship Indiana. USS Indiana (BB-1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of
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US Navy Battleships 1886–98: The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War: New Vanguard Brian Lane Herder Osprey Publishing
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