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103k | Crewmembers posed atop her after starboard 8"/35 gun turret, circa the early 1900s. Note that the inboard gun has its muzzle blown off, presumably the result of an accident. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 75671. | |
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53k | Early 1900's circa photo of the Iowa (BB-04). | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
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92k | Ship's officers posed on her foredeck, circa 1904 or 1905. Lieutenant Commander William S. Benson, the Executive Officer, is fifth from the left, in the front row. Seated just to the right of Benson, is probably Captain Benjamin F. Tilley, Iowa's (BB-04) Commanding Officer. If it is Tilley, the photo was taken in January-August 1905. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53263. | |
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60k | Iowa (BB-04), anchored off New York City, 1905. | USNHC photo # NH 105568, from the collection of Warren Beltramini, donated by Beryl Beltramini, 2007. Photo added 03/20/08. | |
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121k | Ship's officers and crew pose on her foredeck, forward 12"/35 gun turret and superstructure, 1906. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 97948. | |
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92k | Member's of the ship's championship baseball team, circa 1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 95239. | |
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79k | Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia
Waterfront scene, Autumn 1907. Ships at left are (from front to rear):
Hopkins (DD-6);
Lawrence (DD-8);
Hull (DD-7);
Talbot (Torpedo Boat # 15) and
Moccasin A-4 (SS-5). The latter two are hauled out on the marine railway.
Stewart (DD-13) is in the right foreground. Ahead of her are a torpedo boat, a barge and the tug Mohawk. Three battleships are docked beyond them, with Iowa (BB-04) furthest to the right.
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Photograph # 19-N-60-10-20 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
 | 96k | Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy. Attendees at the Society's organizational meeting, in Washington, D.C., February 1908. The photograph was given to the Society by Mrs. Annie Keith Frazier Somerville, one of its founders. Her mother had sent a photographer to Washington's Willard Hotel to take this view. The fourteen sponsors present to organize the Society were (Those identified on the photograph are marked "**"): Mrs. G.F. Toland; ** Mrs. John P. Pels (Miss R.W. Wright), Sponsor of Denver (C-14); ** Mrs. Earl Morgan (Miss Elizabeth Stephenson), Sponsor of Wisconsin (BB-9); Miss Helen Duchler, Sponsor of Ohio (BB-12); Mrs. George Sturdevant (Miss M.L. Drake), Sponsor of Iowa (BB-4); ** Miss Lorna Pinnock, Sponsor of Salem (CS-3); Miss Harriet Rankin; Miss Dorothy Sproul, Sponsor of Chester (CS-1); Miss Ida May Shearer; ** Miss Mary Campbell, Sponsor of Birmingham (CS-2); ** Miss Keith Frazier, Sponsor of Tennessee (ACR-10); ** Mrs. John South (Miss Christine Bradley), Sponsor of Kentucky (BB-6); ** Miss Minnie Conrad, Sponsor of Montana (ACR-13). The little girl is Miss Eleanor Gow. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 95456, collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy. | |
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53k | The Iowa (BB-04) all decked up with flags, possibly at the ceremony marking her decommissioning at Philadelphia, 23 July 1908. | U.S. National Archives photo (NARA), courtesy of USNI. | |
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62k | The Iowa (BB-04) at Plymouth, Devon, England in June 1910. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hirst. | |
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68k | Probably photographed in New York Harbor, circa 1911. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 63501. | |
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92k | Iowa (BB-04) -- front left center -- Indiana (BB-01) and Massachusetts (BB-2) at Kiel, Germany, during the Academy practice cruise, Summer 1911. Ships of the German fleet are in the background. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 85736. |  |
110k | Photograph, taken circa 1912, reproduced in retouched and color-tinted form on a postal card. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53262-KN. |
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46k | Post card, circa 1917. | Courtesy of Richard Cleaveland via Joe Radigan. |  |
96k | Photographed during World War I, circa 1917. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53260. |
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96k | Underway, circa 1918, during her World War I service. | Photograph USNHC # 19-N-1985 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
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37k | Despite the inscription on the photo by Enrique Miller labeled Illinois (BB-07), this is a photo of the Iowa (BB-04), underway, May 1918 off Hampton Roads, Va. She remained there for the duration of the war, training men for other ships of the Fleet, and doing guard duty at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. | Photograph from Fiche1380 in the U.S. National Archives, courtesy of Dan Treadwell. Text courtesy of DANFS. | |
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90k | Dressed with flags while off Baltimore, Maryland, during the post-World War I Naval Review, December 1918. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53259. | |
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117k | In the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, January 1919. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53261. | |
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118k | In the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa early 1919. She is flying a Rear Admiral's flag from her main mast peak. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 74096, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. | |
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116k | Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Destroyers and other ships at the Yard in March 1919, awaiting decommissioning. Identifiable ships include: Iowa (BB-04), at far left; Isabel (PY-10), left center; Lawrence (DD-08), foreground; and Perry (DD-11), inboard of Lawrence. Note Lawrence's after torpedo tube and pattern camouflage. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 52104. | |
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209k | "Flotilla A, Destroyer Force". Tied up with sterns to the wharf in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, while awaiting decommissioning, circa May 1919. Other ships in the background include a Monitor, three old battleships and several torpedo boats. Panoramic photograph by Frawley and Collins, Mount Holly, New Jersey. Ships in the foreground are (from left to right): Dale (DD-4); Lawrence (DD-8); Perry (DD-11); Whipple (DD-15); Truxtun (DD-14); A barge; Worden (DD-16); Barry (DD-2); Hull (DD-7); Hopkins (DD-6); Bainbridge (DD-1); Stewart (DD-13); Paul Jones (DD-10); Decatur (DD-5); Preble (DD-12); Preston (DD-19); Flusser (DD-20); Lamson (DD-18); Reid (DD-21); and Isabel (SP-521). Ships in the background are (from left to right): Amphitrite (BM-2);ex-Iowa (BB-04) outboard; ex-Massachusetts (BB-02) inboard; and ex-Indiana (BB-01). Several torpedo boats are moored alongside the old battleships. |
Photograph # NH 105512, from the collections of the United States Naval Historical Center. | |
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82k | Old battleships in the Reserve basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 22 October 1919. Ships in the front row are, from left to right: Iowa (BB-4); Massachusetts (BB-2); Indiana (BB-1); Kearsarge (BB-5); Kentucky (BB-6); and Maine (BB-10). | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 92300. | |
Additional Iowa Images
17 General Views Of Iowa From The Library Of Congress Server.
13 Crew Images Of Iowa From The Library Of Congress Server.
11 Interior Views Of Iowa From The Library Of Congress Server.
9 Battle Of Santiago From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS IOWA BB-4 History
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