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USS New Jersey, 1918

Original - The pre-dreadnought battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16) in 1918, near the end of the First World War. Note the camouflage scheme she has been painted with and the 8-inch guns mounted on top of the 12-inch turrets. This was an experiment only tried with the Kearsarge and Virginia classes, and was not repeated. Normal mountings were used on the following Connecticut class, while all American battleships after that utilized a superfiring arrangement.

Edit 1 - Durova's compensation for the tilt.

Reason

Image is of high quality and great composition.

Articles in which this image appears

USS New Jersey (BB-16)

Creator

Navy Department

• Support as nominator --—Ed (talk • majestic titan) 22:17, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
• Comment. Image is badly tilted (check the horizon). This can be fixed. While you're at it, is there a version where that mast/antenna or whatever is not clipped at the top? --jjron (talk) 11:10, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Durova's helped me out; see the edit. And no, there is no other version without the clipped top. I wish there was, though. :) —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 01:27, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support Edit1 rare, interesting, valued. Tilt fixed now --George Chernilevsky ^talk 12:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
• Supportedit 1 per nom. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 06:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted No quorum. —Maedin\^talk 12:38, 28 January 2010 (UTC)