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That's right, a dynamite gun cruiser. A real one! USS Vesuvius was armed with three 15" pneumatic guns firing 550 lbs shells filled with explosives (not quite dynamite but pretty similar).
Posts:1616 Joined: November 12th, 2010, 4:27 pm
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Thanks mates.
MihoshiK wrote:
And the vote for "Most useless warship" goes to...
Not to Vesuvius, that's for sure See for yourself, she was a technology demonstrator, she bombarded Cuban shores during Spanish-American war, and in the end of her career she was a torpedo-testing vessel. There were battleships that achieved less
dc1 wrote:
She could be turned in to a decent yacht....
Agreed. Maybe I should try and draw this "what if" yacht?
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See for yourself, she was a technology demonstrator, she bombarded Cuban shores during Spanish-American war, and in the end of her career she was a torpedo-testing vessel. There were battleships that achieved less 
