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![]() | 65k | Inboard profile of Maine (BB-10) as modernized with cage masts. Note the installation of a central (fire control) station, which the U.S. Navy considered the key to long range gunnery. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
![]() | 280k | Maine (BB-10) in Gotham City, 1911. | Digital ID: 2162984429_db453ac5e8_o. LC-B2-2332-14. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. | |
![]() | 25k | "Ships of the Atlantic Fleet playing their searchlights at night along the Hudson River." | USN photo by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 16 May 1915, Page 1. | |
![]() | 38k | "The Atlantic Fleet saluting the President as it passed out to sea last Tuesday mid-day, with the New York skyline in the background." The battleship on the right with the 3 smoke stacks is too unclear to make out for positive I.d. aside from being either from the Maine (BB-10 / 12), Virginia (BB-13 / 17) or Connecticut (BB-18-22 & 25) classes. | Photo by International News Service, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 23 May 1915, Page 1. | |
![]() | 280k | Crew in dress whites lined up for inspection on the Maine (BB-10), 15 August 1916. During World War I, she trained engineers, armed guard crews, and midshipmen. | Digital ID ggbain # 22422v. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection. Text courtesy of DANFS. | |
![]() | 152k | 16 August 1916 photo of the Maine (BB-10) as she operated along the east coast. | Digital ID ggbain # 22465v. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. | |
![]() | 51k | Missouri (BB-11) operating as a training ship, circa 1917. The next ship astern is probably Maine (BB-10). | USNHC # NH 45915. | |
![]() | 120k | Yacht Atlantis (SP-40) passing the Maine (BB-10), prior to World War I. | Photograph USNHC # 95862, by Paul Thompson, New York. | |
![]() | 94k | Underway, circa 1918, port side view, shows the ship after modernization. This included cage masts, unarmored range finders on her turrets, a minimal bridge, and removal of 6" secondary guns, with the wet ones, forward, completely plated over. | Photograph USNHC # 19-N-14933, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
![]() | 30k | Official Program Fighting Vessels Booklet, 1918, Maine (BB-10),34 pages. This programme ( 6" X 9 3/8" ) was dedicated for Navy Day Review in New York Harbor December 1918. 115 Vessels were present, from the presidential yacht Mayflower to the Idaho (BB-42). Pictures include the Wyoming (BB-32), Arkansas (BB-33), Utah (BB-31), Florida (BB-30), South Carolina (BB-26), North Dakota (BB-29), New Hampshire (BB-25), Nebraska (BB-14), Louisiana (BB-19), Mississippi (BB-41), Minnesota (BB-22), Kansas (BB-21), Connecticut (BB-18), Vermont (BB-20), Georgia (BB-15), Michigan (BB-27),Kearsarge (BB-05), New Jersey (BB-16), Virginia (BB-13), Ohio (BB-10), Missouri (BB-11), Kentucky (BB-06), Illinois (BB-07), Rhode Island (BB-17), Alabama (BB-08), Indiana (BB-01), Wisconsin (BB-09), Massachusetts (BB-02), Iowa (BB-04) & Delaware (BB-28). Destroyers McCall (DD-28), Walke (DD-34), Perkins (DD-26), Monaghan (DD-32), Collier Neptune (AC–8), as well as the Submarines Salmon (SS-19), Narwhal (SS-17), Stingray (SS-13) and Tarantula (SS-12). Page shows a Key to Anchorage of all the Vessels in the New York City Harbor, from West 30th to West 170th. Price was Tens cents, printed by Master Mates Pilot, 80 Broad Street, NY City. | Photograph & text courtesy of Ron Reeves. | |
![]() | 336k | Post card of the Maine (BB-10) for Home and Country. | Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. Photo added 07/19/09. | |
![]() | 101k | In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918. Note wartime modifications, including removal of some broadside guns. | USNHC # 2892. | |
![]() | 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). | USNHC # NH 42525. | |
![]() | 63k | U.S. Navy warships awaiting scrapping, 1922. Probably photographed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Maine (BB-10) is at right, down at the head with her side armor removed. Wisconsin (BB-9) is in the center. Columbia, (ex-Columbia) (CA-16) is toward the left, with a merchant ship alongside. | USNHC # 100762. | |
![]() | 371k | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. | USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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