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BB-5 USS KEARSARGE
1910 - 1919


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1896 - 1902
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1920 - 1955


Kearsarge Class Battleship: Displacement 11,525 Tons, Dimensions, 375' 4" (oa) x 72' 3" x 25' 10" (Max), Armament 4 x 13"/35 4 x 8"/35, 14 x 5"/40 4 x 18" tt, Armor, 16 1/2" Belt, 17" Turrets, 5" Decks, 10" Conning Tower, Machinery, 10,000 IHP; 2 vertical triple expanison engines, 2 screws, Speed, 16 Knots, Crew 553.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Newport News, Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA., on June 30, 1896. Launched March 24, 1898, Commissioned February 20, 1900, Decommissioned September 4, 1909, Recommissioned June 17, 1912, Decommissioned May 18, 1920, Converted at Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard into Crane Ship and redesignated AB-1, August 5, 1920. Renamed Crane Ship 1, November 6, 1941 to free name for new construction. Stricken June 22, 1955.
Fate: Sold August 9, 1955 and broken up for scrap.
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BB-5 Kearsarge 105k Anchored off New York City during the October 1912 naval review. Photo # NH 52033, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
BB-5 Kearsarge 96k Anchored off New York City during the October 1912 naval review. Postal card published circa the 19-"teens", featuring a retouched and color-tinted photograph taken off New York City during the October 1912 naval review. Colors applied to the ship's smokestacks and guns are quite inaccurate. In 1912 these would have been grey, not "buff". Photo # 52032-KN, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
Octopus340kC-1 (SS-09), during the Naval Review week in New York City, October 4th, 1912.
The battleship Kearsarge (BB-05) is in the background.
NARA (National Archives and Record Administration) photo # 19-N-13646, courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
BB-5 Kearsarge 78k Submarine D-3 (SS-19) underway off New York City during the October 1912 Naval Review. Kearsarge (BB-5) is in the background. Note the "E" award displayed on D-3's conning tower. Photo # NH 59632, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
BB-5 Kearsarge 121k October, 1916 photo off Boston shows standard pre-dreadnought modifications. These included a cut down bridgework, canvas covering at her conning position and wheel house, and unarmored turret mounted range finders. As with the Indiana (BB-1), the Kearsarge (BB-5) was also plagued with a low freeboard. Cage masts have replaced her original fighting masts for better long distance salvo spotting and stability. USN photo.
BB-5 Kearsarge 236k Anchored probably off New York City during the late teens. Her secondary broadside guns have all been removed.USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Photo added 09/06/06.
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 138k Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
Ships in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, circa spring 1919. Panoramic photograph taken by Keystone Photo Studios, 817 So. Broad St., Philadelphia. The following ships can be identified from among those present:
Rowan (DD-64)); Preston (DD-19); Macdonough (DD-09); Patterson (DD-36); St. Louis (C-12); Ohio (BB-12); SC-342; SC-344; Alabama (BB-8); Kearsarge (BB-5); Illinois (BB-7); Ozark (Monitor -7); Kentucky(BB-6); and Hancock(AP-3) .
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98604, from the collection of Eugene Bennett, donated by his daughter, Jene B. Hart, September 1988.
BB-11 Missouri69kPhiladelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Older warships in the Reserve Basin, 18 November 1919, as seen by a Philadelphia Evening Ledger photographer. Ships are (front row, left to right): Missouri (BB-11); one Connecticut class battleship; Michigan (BB-27); and Saint Louis (C-20). Those in the back row are (left to right): Maine (BB-10); Kentucky (BB-6);Kearsarge (BB-5); Indiana (BB-1); Massachusetts (BB-2); Iowa (BB-4); Wisconsin (BB-9); and Illinois (BB-7).Photo # NH 42525, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

Additional Kearsarge Images
15 General Views Of Kearsarge From The Library Of Congress Server.

USS KEARSARGE BB-5 History
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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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