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Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
356k	Stereoscopic color print of Naval Review at Oyster Bay during the summer of 1906.	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
384k	Stereoscopic color print of Mess time on board ship during the "Great White Fleet".	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
353k	Stereoscopic color print of a favorite pastime during the "Great White Fleet".	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
331k	Stereoscopic color print of a rapid firing gun during the "Great White Fleet".	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
386k	Stereoscopic color print of a Liberty party during the "Great White Fleet".	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
355k	Stereoscopic color print of the ship's tailor during the "Great White Fleet".	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
104k	Battle Fleet Flag of 1911.	Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-hec-00709 courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
138k	Naval review of 1912; Maj. Thomas L. Rhoads; President Taft; Lt. Cmdr John W. Timmonds; Comdr Gormley.	Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-hec-01622 & text courtesy of the Harris & Ewing Collection.
56k	"A night signal gun". A Signalman practices with a portable flashing light signalling device, atop a battleship's conning tower, circa the mid-1910s. The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106277. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
102k	"A pie eating contest". On board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa the mid-1910s. The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106274. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
101k	"Mining Drill". Sailors practice the employment of sea mines for the defense of advanced bases, on board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa the early or middle 1910s. New Hampshire (BB-25) is in the background. The original image, copyrighted by E. Muller Jr. from N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106270. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
102k	"A Cock Fight -- Standing By". Crew members of a U.S. Navy battleship prepare to release their fighting poultry, circa the early or middle 1910s. The original image, copyrighted by E. Muller Jr. from N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106271. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
72k	"Plotting the trajectory of the 14" gun". An officer instructs battleship crew members in technical aspects of gunnery and fire control, circa the middle 1910s. The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106272. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
157k	Preparedness parade: A Float like Battleship of the Nevada (BB-36) class in 1916.	Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-hec-06848 & text courtesy of the Harris & Ewing Collection.
96k	A mock-up of a one funneled *battleship* entitled Recruit, being built at Union Square, New York City, appropriately across the street from the Germania Building during WW I. The Recruit was built in 1917 to promote enlistment in the Navy and Marines. Mayor John Purroy Mitchel vociferously supported the Allied war effort and in April 1917 noted that New York City's quota for the Navy was 2,000 but that the city had enlisted only 900. To promote enlistments, the Mayor's Committee on National Defense raised money to build the mock battleship, designed by Donn Barber and Jules Guerin, and presented it to the Navy on Memorial Day 1917. Olive Mitchel, the Mayor's wife, christened the ship with a bottle of champagne. Modeled after the Maine (BB-10), the 200- by 40-foot Recruit was made of gray-painted wood and tin, with a real searchlight, semaphore signals and one-pound guns. The ''land-ship'' ultimately secured 25,000 enlistments in the Navy, and in 1920 was removed from Union Square. Mitchel was defeated in the elections of 1917, joined the Army Air Corps and was killed in a training accident the next year.	Digital ID # ggbain 24399v, LC-B2-4211-13. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 1 December 1996, courtesy of Christopher Gray.
381k	Building the Recruit at Union Square.	Digital ID # ggbain 24400v, LC-B2-4211-14. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection & shorpy.com.
208k	Christening party on Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24536, LC-B2-4228-10. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
261k	The Recruit anchored to the grass in at Union Square.	Digital ID # ggbain 25522v, LC-B2-4371-9. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
352k	Broadside view of the *battleship* Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24411v, LC-B2-4212-17. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
102k	Commemorative postal cover marking the *battleship* Recruit in Union Square, N.Y.	Courtesy of cgi.ebay.com.
248k	Bow on view of Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24319v, LC-B2-4201-1. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
171k	Recruits on the deck of the Recruit. Note the flag.	Digital ID # ggbain 24624v, LC-B2-4238-3. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
126k	Camouflaging Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 27193v, LC-B2- 4642-8. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
300k	A camouflaged Recruit in the Demonstration Garden near the Broadway marked subway at Union Square.	Digital ID # ggbain 27192v, LC-B2-4642-5. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
545k	Naval Reserves from Washington, DC standing en masse near recruitment poster that says: MEN WANTED FOR US NAVY - APPLY HERE, during WWI aboard the *battleship* Recruit.	Photographer: John Dominis, NARA FILE #: 019-N-11381 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 434, HD-SN-99-02093, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of life.com.
105k	Navy life on the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 26147v, LC-B2- 4642-8. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
96k	Some of the crew and mascots of the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 26145v, LC-B2-4480-16. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
103k	Signing a Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24630v, LC-B2-4211-14. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
128k	Secretary of the Navy Daniels on the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 26339v, LC-B2-4515-15. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
109k	Rookies on the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24586v, LC-B2-4233-10. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
126k	Officers & crew on the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24714v, LC-B2-4245-16a. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
121k	On the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24534v, LC-B2-4228-7. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
162k	Wash day on the Recruit.	Digital ID # ggbain 24568v, LC-B2-4232-3. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
95k	National Archives photo of a miniature camouflaged battleship in Boston. The caption reads: "Camouflaged model of battleship cruises at Boston. This diminutive reproduction of a battleship camouflaged in approved fashion is cruising along the Charles River at Boston, 15 May 1918".	National Archives & Record Administration (NARA) Record Group 165WW, NARA photo RG-165WW, Fiche 280, courtesy of Dan Treadwell.
969k	Destroyers defeated dreadnoughts in sham battle off Avalon, California. Dec. 1921.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
1.5m	Wings of a Nation - Awaiting attack in Fleet Problem Nineteen between April and May 1938, the aircraft carriers Ranger (CV-4), Saratoga (CV-3) and Lexington (CV-2).	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
1.1m	Whaleboats of the Battle Fleet racing at San Pedro., June, 1938. The whaleboat closest to the *New Mexico class, [(New Mexico(BB-41)] or [Mississippi(BB-41)] battleship is marked (B-39)* and is from the *Arizona*.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo i.d. courtesy of Mike Green.
1.3m	Fleet review for the Legionnaires-Combining aircraft with the Fleet, the Navy staged wargames outside Los Angeles Harbor for the American Legion. Dec.,1938.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
1.0m	The three battleships of the Colorado (BB-45 / 48) class, {in no particular order}, Colorado (BB-45), Maryland (BB-46) & West Virginia (BB-48) in formation during a display for the American legion Convention at Los Angeles, Dec., 1938.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
653k	The old and the new, April 1940.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
1.2m	Security for the hemisphere is and will long remain in battleships, April, 1940.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
752k	The shore line of Long Beach-San Pedro offers an interesting view as scouting planes (TBD Devastators)roar out to sea over the Fleet at anchor. In the bottom left of the picture is a Lexington class (CV-2/3) aircraft carrier. Note Catalina Island in the left background.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
890k	Destroyers in column formation outside Los Angeles Harbor during a display of the entire fighting forces of the Navy. Note the Lexington class (CV-2/3) aircraft carrier.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
705k	The destroyer...a weapon of stealth. April 1940.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
294k	At sea with the Navy----Smooth seas for the battle wagons. This striking picture, released today by the Navy, shows three huge battleships moving in formation thorough the calm waters of the Caribbean during the recent war games. This picture was made from the aircraft carrier Lexington (CV-2) .	A.P. Wirephoto from the collection of Michael Strout, courtesy of Jonathan Eno. Photo added 09/06/09.
950k	US Fleet exercising for Navy Day, destroyers in the upper left, center, heavy cruisers and battleships in the right foreground.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
301k	The heart of the Fleet about which the widespread structure of naval strength is built. The Idaho (BB-42) leads the way, May, 1940. She never had wind baffles on her bridge shielding as her two sisters did. The battleship behind her is probably New Mexico (BB-40), since she had pronounced wind baffles with visible supports on the faces of her bridge shields. I would be absolutely certain that she is if the photo had better resolution, but am 95% sure anyway. Mississippi (BB-41) had wind baffles on the faces of her shielding also, but hers were less pronounced, and without much of the supports visible. It appears that *Mississippi* is astern of *New Mexico* turning to starboard into column. Another clue is that *Idaho* was fitted as a flagship as opposed to her sisters, and it would follow that she would be lead battleship in the column of her Division. The three sisters comprised BATDIV THREE for much of the 1930's.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo i.d. & text courtesy of David Buell.
629k	Bluejackets posing with their searchlight, May, 1940.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
465k	New destroyers of the US Battle Fleet - the gun power of a nest of the fast 1,500-tonners.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
789k	A carrier air group flies above the Arizona (BB-39), New Mexico (BB-40) & West Virginia (BB-48) and the rest of the Pacific Fleet during Fleet Ops in October 1940. The first two squadrons are the same: a torpedo squadron of Douglas TBD-1s (monoplanes) followed by a bombing squadron of Northrop BT-1s (monoplanes). After that I'm uncertain because the biplane types are too small to determine at the available resolution.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Text & photo i.d. courtesy of Alan Moore via Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History by Paul Stillwell, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
1.2m	Fleet maneuvers - a line of battleships is seen to the left, followed by cruisers through whose line the destroyers are speeding.	USNI Photo Navy Recruiting Bureau, N.Y. Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
1.6m	This 1949 photo taken from the endpapers of New York Shipbuilding's 50th anniversary book, shows Newton Creek at high tide. The view is to the southeast, toward Gloucester Heights. Yorkship Village (Fairview) is at the upper left, flanked by the North Branch and the wide tidal floodplain of the creek's main channel. A causeway bridge across the main channel links Yorkship Village's Collings Road with Gloucester at the upper right. A rail line (note the freight train) follows the west bank of the creek. Conspicuously missing from this image are the east end of the Walt Whitman Bridge, I-676, and the bridge interchange, all built in the late 1950s. Most of the tidal floodplain seen here was filled and the course of the North Branch was altered during construction. The mouth of Newton Creek is at the center right. A heavy cruiser or battleship is moored in the creek. Another capital ship occupies one of the open slipways. Portions of two light carriers can be seen in the wet slip at the lower left, adjacent to the covered slipways.	Photo & text courtesy of Michael Kube-McDowell / yorkship.home.comcast.net.

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