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David Latuch
Post subject: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 5:24 pm
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Darthpanda asked me to draw the USS Kentucky (BB-6) ca 1912 from his original drawing of her sistership USS Kearsarge (BB-5) as commissioned. . .here she is.

USS Kearsarge (BB-5) 1900

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USS Kentucky (BB-6) was the second and final Kearsarge-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the United States Navy. The Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia laid down her keel on 30 June 1896. She was launched on 24 March 1898, sponsored by Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of Kentucky Governor William O'Connell Bradley. She was commissioned on 15 May 1900.

Kentucky, like USS Kearsarge, had two double turrets, with two 13 in (330 mm)/35 caliber guns and two 8 in (203 mm)/40 caliber guns each, stacked on two levels. The guns and turret armor were designed by the Bureau of Ordnance, while the turret itself was designed by the Bureau of Construction and Repair. The configuration caused the guns to be mounted far back in the turret, making the ports very large. Admiral William Sims claimed that as a result of the gun mounting, a shell fired into the port could reach the magazines below, disabling the guns. In addition to these guns, Kentucky carried fourteen 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns, twenty 6-pounder (57 mm or 2.2 in) guns, eight 1-pounder (37 mm or 1.5 in) guns, four .30 in (7.6 mm) machine guns, and four 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. Kentucky had a very low freeboard, often making her guns unusable during bad weather.

The ship's waterline armor belt was 5–16.5 inches (130–420 mm) thick. Her main gun turrets were protected by 15–17 inches (380–430 mm) of armor, while the secondary turrets had 6–11 inches (150–280 mm) of armor. The barbettes were 12.5–15 inches (320–380 mm) thick, and the conning tower had 10 inches (250 mm) of armor. The ship's armor was made of harveyized steel.

As with most of the Great White Fleet ships, Kentucky was modernized on her return to the United Stats. She was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 28 August 1909, and her modernization was completed in 1911, at a cost of $675,000. The ship received cage masts, new water-tube boilers, and another four 5-inch guns. The 1-pounder guns were removed, as were sixteen of the 6-pounders. On 4 June 1912, she was recommissioned in the Second Reserve, and on 31 May 1913 she was transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in Philadelphia. She was recommissioned again at Philadelphia on 23 June 1915.
Excerpted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kentucky_(BB-6)

Here is USS Kentucky (BB-6)

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For some reason Dropbox's limks aren't working. :(

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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 5:30 pm
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Dropbox have disabled everything. You can use imgur.

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David Latuch
Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 5:47 pm
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heuhen wrote: *
Dropbox have disabled everything. You can use imgur.

To quote Batman:
Didn't you get the memo?
Okay, so I registered to imgur and posted two images there but now how can I post from imgur to Shipbucket?
The site is not as user friendly as Dropbox. :oops:

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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 6:03 pm
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Imgur is super easy to use. Just drag the image from your desktop into the browser window and it will upload automatically. Then just copy the image URL and put it between [img] tags here like you normally would.

Looks great too!

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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 6:10 pm
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when you are logged in.

- hold you'r mouse over your user name up in the right corner (a menu come down)
- click on images or album
- click on the picture/drawing you want, and all link information will come up.


When uploading picture from your computer:
- log in to imgur as normal.
- If you want to have your drawing in a specific folder, open it.
- open up the drawing location on your computer, and drag that file directly over to imgur webpage. it will be uploaded automatically. (no need to use that add images-link)


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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 6:37 pm
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Good work. :)


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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: August 30th, 2017, 7:29 pm
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Very nice work!

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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: September 1st, 2017, 1:51 pm
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Lovely job!

I wonder if she would have had wooden decking on the upper decks. Especially on the funnel walkways.


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Post subject: Re: USS Kentucky BB-6Posted: September 1st, 2017, 8:48 pm
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Nice work David.


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