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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. | |
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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. | |
 | 340k | C-1 (SS-09), during the Naval Review week in New York City, 4th October 1912. The battleship Kearsarge (BB-05) is in the background. | NARA (National Archives and Record Administration) photo # 19-N-13646, courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
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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. | |
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298k | Prior to World War I Admiral Louis Rodolph de Steiguer commanded the battleship Kearsarge (BB-5);
in 1916. During World War I he served as chief of staff of the Third Naval District before reporting as captain of the battleship Arkansas (BB-33), which was stationed with the American dreadnaught squadron operating with the British Grand Fleet. After the war, de Steiguer was Hydrographer of the Navy from July 1921 to December 1921. Promoted to rear admiral, he was commander of the First Naval District, including the Portsmouth Navy Yard, from June 1923 to 1925. ADM Louis R. de Steiguer, Commander in Chief, Battle Fleet (far left); William Wallace Campbell, President, U.C. Berkeley; RADM Harris Laning, Chief of Staff, Battle Fleet; COL R.O. Van Horn, Army ROTC Unit; CAPT William D. Puleston, Asst Chief of Staff, Battle Fleet; CAPT Chester Nimitz, Naval ROTC Unit captured here during an Inspection visit to Naval ROTC Unit at U.C. Berkeley (1927). | Official U.S. Navy photo from Naval Historical Collection via Bill Gonyo. | |
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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. | |
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133k | Capt. Louis Rudolph De Steiguer was the commanding officer of the battleship Kearsarge (BB-5) from 1916 to 1917. | Official U.S. Navy photo from Naval Historical Collection (Cropped) via Bill Gonyo. Photo added 06/14/09. | |
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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. | |
 | 137k | Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Older warships in the Reserve Basin, photo is probably post WW I (1918 to 1920). From right to left: First ship: Kearsarge class (BB-5 / 6), probably Kearsarge (BB-5). The photo shows a platform above the Navigation Bridge which is straight across the front. Photos of the Kentucky (BB-6) at this time show a similar platform but one which extends out over the conning tower roof at the center. I've not seen a photo of the Kearsarge at this time so I'm not positive. Second ship:Wisconsin (BB-9). Sister ship Illinois (BB-7) had a bridge structure atop the conning tower while sister Alabama (BB-8) had a second platform on the mast between the bridge and the lowest searchlight. Third Ship: Indiana (BB-01). This ship is "hull down" behind the Wisconsin with only her upper works visible, the 2 short funnels and the old "military" mast to the left of the Wisconsin's forward cage mast. The mast is sitting atop a round faced bridge structure. Sister Oregon (BB-03) is on the West coast and sister Massachusetts’ bridge has a square face. Fourth Ship: Iowa (BB-4). This ship is also “hull down” and is actually beyond the fifth ship in the photo. Visible are cage main mast (second from the left in the photo), the 2 tall funnels and the military mast partially hidden the shorter funnel of the nearer ship. The funnels identify the ship. Fifth Ship: Massachusetts (BB-2). The aft main and secondary batteries and the cage mast are clearly visible as are the shorter funnels and the military mast (in front of Iowa’s forward funnel). This is a case of everyone else is eliminated. Oregon (BB-03) is on the west coast and the Indiana is across the slip, ergo… The last ship appears to have 4 short funnels and no cage mast which means it is probably a cruiser but I have not identified it. | Digital ID: # ggbain 09957, LC-B2-2333-3. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. Photo I.d. & text courtesy of Chris Hoehn. | |
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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. | |
 | 69k | Philadelphia 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. | |
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