The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world.
From her conceptual beginnings on drawing boards in Washington to the battle to protect her against age, scrapping, and the advent of big-gun battleships, this landmark study celebrates one of America\'s classic historic ships..
This is a flesh-and-steel history of a pivotal warship that straddled the eras of commerce raiding and battle fleet confrontation in naval warfare.
Today she is part of a naval shrine at Penn\'s Landing in Philadelphia.
George Dewey\'s flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay.
Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the 19th century, she became famous as Adm.
The USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world
