Please gentlemen, don't let this argument ruin an, otherwise, nice thread! Especially on the day that your nation, and perhaps the whole world, move to a new and hopefully better era!
I was planning on writing a fun, sarcastic reply about how easy it was to identify this ship but now I feel it is best to refrain from doing that.
Searat, I have to be honest with you. The picture itself wasn't what made think it was USS Brooklyn. Just like Subfixer said before me, there are just not enough clues in it to come to that conclusion. Maybe it has for someone with expert knowledge of that period in the US Navy. But that doesn't apply to me. I'm not the pre-dreadnought meister (thank you George).
I just know how to connect things and how to find stuff! When you said this was of one of your very favoritest pre-dreadnought ships I had the suspicion you might already have stated that opinion somewhere else on this forum. So I looked at the 1/350 kits we all would like to see! thread (which you yourself started) and voila....there it was:
20 Nov 2008, Searat12: USS Brooklyn ACR 3 (my favorite predreadnought!) Then I noticed the filename of your picture: bro.jpg. That did the trick for me. So you see, no magic, no knowledge, no miracle, just common sense. Sorry!