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166k | The monitor Arkansas (M-7) fitting out at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., 1 July 1902. Her armament is completley installed and the ship is only four months away from commissioning. The ship in the background is the battleship Missouri (BB-11). | U.S. Navy photo & text courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 46, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596. | |
 | 51k | Outboard profile plan, prepared by the ship's builders, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, during the design process, 1899. Some details were changed prior to Missouri's (BB-11) completion in December 1903. The original drawing is plan number 80-16-22 in the National Archives' Record Group 19. | USNHC # NH 76638. | |
 | 56k | Missouri (BB-11) as completed, line drawing by A.D. Baker III. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 88k | Fitting out at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 30 June 1903. A crane barge is alongside. | Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. USNHC # NH 19-N-2-12-10. | |
 | 75k | Circa 1903-08, at speed. | USN | |
 | 73k | At dockside, circa 1903-08. Note prisoner working party at left, guarded by Marines and moving a handcart full of debris. | USNHC # NH 67619. | |
 | 119k | Lieutenant Commander William S. Sims, USN, Inspector of Target Practice. Cartoon invitation from the Wardroom Officers of Missouri (BB-11) to LCdr. Sims, inviting him to a "silent dinner" on 15 September 1904. The drawing and text refer to Sims' position at that time as the Navy's effective "Czar" of gunnery. "Ping" and "Pong" are his assistants, Lieutenants Ridley McLean and Powers Symington. | USNHC # NH 89489 KN. | |
 | 119k | Missouri (BB-11) Turret Fire, 13 April 1904. Color-tinted photograph, printed on a postal card, showing the funeral procession for the victims of the tragedy. The original postcard was published by the Rochester News Company as Number 5 in the series "How the United States honors its Naval Heros". | USNHC # NH 91708. | |
 | 101k | Missouri (BB-11) Turret Fire, 13 April 1904. Color-tinted photograph, printed on a postal card, showing the burial ceremonies for the victims of the tragedy. The original postcard was published by the American News Company as Number 6 in the series "How the United States honors its Naval Heros". | USNHC # NH 94969-KN | |
 | 103k | Missouri (BB-11) Turret Fire, 13 April 1904. Color-tinted photograph, printed on a postal card, showing the burial ceremonies for the victims of the tragedy. The original postcard was published by the American News Company as Number 3 in the series "How the United States honors its Naval Heros". | USNHC # NH 101213-KN. | |
 | 72k | Missouri (BB-11) anchored off New York City, 1905. | USNHC photo # NH 105554, from the collection of Warren Beltramini, donated by Beryl Beltramini, 2007. Photo added 03/20/08. | |
 | 108k | Colorized photo postcard of the Missouri (BB-11) showing her 13" inch maim battery, by Enrique Muller, copyright 1905 from the Illustrated Postal Card Company, New York. | Photograph contributed by Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 82k | Colorized photo postcard of the Missouri (BB-11) by Edward H. Mitchell, circa 1906. | Photograph contributed by Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 106k | Starboard bow view of the Missouri (BB-11) in a color steroscopic print, circa 1906. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 64k | Reverse side of the steroscopic print, circa 1906. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 46k | Missouri (BB-11) during the Jamestown Exposition naval review in Hampton Roads, Virginia, May 1907. | USNHC # NH 45910. | |
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345k | The "Great White Fleet" steaming in column, probably while departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, at the start of their cruise around the World, December 1907. Kansas (BB-21) is at left, followed by Vermont (BB-20). | USN photo # N-0000X-001 courtesy of navy.mil. Photographed by C.E. Waterman, Hampton, Va. | |
 | 185k | The Connecticut (BB-18) leading the other fifteen warships of the Great White Fleet into Magdalena Bay, Mexico on 12 March 1908 to take on coal and hold long-delayed target practice. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 139k | The Connecticut (BB-18) leading the Great White Fleet into San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. The original photo was taken by C.E. Waterman. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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192k | The Great White Fleet lies in San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. Nearest ship is an Illinois class (BB-7 / 9) battleship. Ahead of it are what appears to be two Maine class (BB-10 / 12) battleships. | Photo by Louis Bostwick, courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart. | |
 | 76k | At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa May-July 1908, during the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet". | Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. USNHC # NH 70511. | |
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155k | Panoramic photograph by the Pillsbury Picture Company showing the review of the "Great White Fleet" on 17 May 1908 by Secretary of the Navy Victor A. Metcalf, embarked in Yorktown (PG-1), which is steaming toward the left in the right center of the image. Three destroyers are in the line nearest to the camera (from left to center), with either Hopkins (DD-6) or Hull (DD-7) in the center and Lawrence (DD-8) next astern. Eleven battleships are present, in the rows on the opposite side of Yorktown's course, and seven Pacific Fleet armored cruisers are in the most distant row. | Photo # NH 105310, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 81k | World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09, Missouri (BB-11) in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. | Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, and submitted by Warren McLean. | |
 | 114k | Ship's officers pose on the quarterdeck with officers from the Japanese Armored Cruiser Nisshin, at Yokohama, Japan, 24 October 1908. Missouri (BB-11) was visiting Japan during the "Great White Fleet"'s cruise around the World. | USNHC # NH 82511. | |
Additional Missouri Images
5 General Views Of Missouri From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS MISSOURI BB-11 History
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