USS Brooklyn

This dramatic poster of the USS Brooklyn was found at an antique market in Maine, oddly for an obscure subject, it seems brand new.

 The USS Brooklyn was a light cruiser launched in 1895. It served in the Spanish American War, one of the key ships in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Then, after serving in the Pacific as flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. the ship was put into reserve in 1907 and then recommissioned for WW1, again serving in the Asiatic fleet. Technology was changing quickly, the ship was decommissioned in 1921 and scrapped in 1922.

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