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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. | |
![]() | 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. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
![]() | 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. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | 101k | In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918. Note wartime modifications, including removal of some broadside guns. | USNHC # 2892. | |
![]() | 23k | Port Side, 1919. | USN photo courtesy of Larry Bonn. | |
![]() | 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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