This vintage real photo postcard features the U. S. Armored Cruiser North Carolina. The ship was a Tennessee class armored Cruiser of the United States Navy. The ship was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and launched in 1906. It was commissioned in 1908. The ship had a crew of 945 men. Much of the ship’s career was spent in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It conducted training and visited foreign ports. The ship was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea twice. The first time its mission was to protect Americans in the Ottoman Empire (1909) and it’s second mission was also to protect Americans during World War I. The ship was later used to bring American soldiers back from France following the war. In 1920, she was renamed “Charlotte: and she was decommissioned the following year. This postcard was published in 1908 by The Valentine Souvenir Company (New York). SOLD
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