For your viewing pleasure. The Mighty USS Colorado from a 1923 magazine cover.

[BB45USSColorado]

Hi all, I bought this off e-bay last week and thought you might like a look at it!

 

[paradat]

Wow very cool thanks for sharing that +1

[Jim_Byrnes]

Very nice!

[Doors_The_Dwarf]

I can dig it

 

[BladedPheonix]

wow!

 

Now was it just the cover or did you get the whole magazine? If so could you maybe post the article so we could read it?

[Wulfgarn]

Awesome!!

 

I too would be interested in the article.

[BB45USSColorado]

wow!

 

Now was it just the cover or did you get the whole magazine? If so could you maybe post the article so we could read it?

 

Just the cover sadly. They only had it.

[Tjtod]

Why was the USS Maryland the first Colorado class BB to be laid down and finished? Cool cover

[BB45USSColorado]

Why was the USS Maryland the first Colorado class BB to be laid down and finished? Cool cover

 

Perhaps New York ship building didn't have a slip open before Newport news did(Newport built Maryland)