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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 425334, member: 5233&quot;]I&#039;m sure it is supposed to be.&nbsp; The ship on the image doesn&#039;t match any US battleship perfectly, I think it is a bit of a generic image.&nbsp; But, the features pictured match a Kearsarge Class more closely than any ship I know of.&nbsp; But, they don&#039;t match it perfectly either.&nbsp; I&#039;d imagine details we changed to either make the note easier to engrave, to make it better fit on the note, and just at the artists discretion (either the artist didn&#039;t do his homework or wanted the ship to look &quot;better&quot;...and I think the ship on the note looks amazing).</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as an example of it not matching a Kearsarge Class perfectly is the ship in the note doesn&#039;t have small defensive gun emplacements along it&#039;s side.&nbsp; A Kearsarge Class Battleship had a cabin setup along the side with small guns.&nbsp; The Battleship on the note doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; It has more of a railing like a New York Class.</p><p><br /></p><p>The major features of the ship on the note (number and location of large guns, masts, stacks, the bridge, ect) match a Kearsarge Class but there are smaller features that don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of what I mean by those side gun emplacements.&nbsp; This is the USS Kentucky (BB-6) which was the second and final Kearsarge Class Battleship: <a href="http://joeschwartz.net/extras/landenberger/USS%20Kentucky.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://joeschwartz.net/extras/landenberger/USS%20Kentucky.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://joeschwartz.net/extras/landenberger/USS Kentucky.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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