USS 'Alabama', American battleship mb-code 42-32402844 showing figures feeding an elephant

showing figures feeding an elephant

Savery describes a model sent to him by the Prince of Hesse-Kassel and his explanation of why it did not work

Circa 1952

holding a bell in his left hand

USS 'Alabama', American battleship mb-code 42-32402844 showing figures feeding an elephantUSS 'Alabama', American battleship, 1898. An 'Illinois' class pre dreadnought battleship, 'Alabama' was launched in 1898. She served with the US North Atlantic Fleet and in 1907 sailed with the 'Great White Fleet' of battleships sent on a circumnavigation of the world by President Theodore Roosevelt to show off America's growing sea power. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book