Launched: April 18, 1903
Post card of the Pittsburgh sent home from Paul L. Webb a sailor aboard the Pittsburgh. It shows the Pittsburgh while in Danzig before she went aground off Libau. Webb was onboard when she went on the rocks as he made note of that on the back of this post card. This post card was mailed in Lativia.
USS Pittsburgh in the harbor of Venice, Italy.
Above is a 1927 Christmas post card for the folks back home. She was on duty on the Asiatic Station at the time. She was the only ship in her class of six Armored Cruisers so modified.
Her final chapter was written as the decommissioned USS Pittsburgh was used in bombing tests on 8 October 1931. This photograph shows the explosion of the first 500-pound bomb in the test series. Also in this photo she is in her modified 3-funnel design.
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