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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. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 252k | Steroscopic color print of the one of the close shaves of a sailor's life on the Missouri (BB-11). | Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 84k | Members of Missouri's (BB-11) baseball team. | Photo courtesy of Manning Harvey III, QMCS(SS) USN,RET. Photo added 09/06/09. | |
 | 143k | Posing in the galley of the Missouri (BB-11). | Photo courtesy of Manning Harvey III, QMCS(SS) USN,RET. Photo added 09/06/09. | |
 | 46k | Missouri (BB-11) during the Jamestown Exposition naval review in Hampton Roads, Virginia, May 1907. | USNHC # NH 45910. | |
 | 112k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the route to be taken by the Atlantic Fleet's battleships and their associated Torpedo Flotilla, from their December 1907 departure from Hampton Roads, Virginia, until their planned arrival at San Francisco, California, in the spring of 1908. Text below the chart indicates that it was published in mid-December 1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106219. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
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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. | |
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64k | Eighteen-inch Torpedo (Whitehead type). On board a U.S. Navy battleship of the Illinois class (BB-7 / 9) or Maine Class (BB-10 / 12), circa 1907-1908. This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise. |
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106066. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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72k | "Hard-Hat" Diver descending from the stern of a launch alongside a battleship, circa 1907-1908.
Note the 6"/50 broadside gun mounted in the battleship's hull side. This ship is either Illinois class (BB-7 / 9) or Maine Class (BB-10 / 12) or Virginia class (BB-13 / 17) battleship. This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise. |
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106072. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
 | 312k | Theodore Roosevelt and Champion Gun's Crew of Missouri (BB-11), 1908. | USNI photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 68k | Captain Robert M. Doyle, Commanding Officer of the Missouri (BB-11) during the cruise of the "Great White Fleet" & from 1 May 1910 to 1 June 1911. | Digital ID: ggbain 15820, Source: Library of Congress & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 112k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the route of the Atlantic Fleet's battleships from their 29 January 1907 departure from Trinidad until their arrival at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 January 1908. It emphasizes the offshore course taken to avoid strong westerly currents off the northeastern coast of South America. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106221. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
 | 129k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the movements of the Atlantic Fleet's battleships from their 8 February 1908 passage of the western part of the Straits of Magellan until their arrival at Callao, Peru, on 20 February 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106227b. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
 | 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. | |
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507k | The fleet at San Diego, Calif., 5, May 1908. What looks like two Connecticut (BB-18 / 22 -25) class battleships to the left; a Virginia (BB-13 / 17) class battleship in the center with what might be three other Connecticut class battleships in the immeadiate distance; two Illinois (BB-7 / 9) class battleships are on the right corner, behind them are the two Kearsarge (BB-5) class battleships and a Virginia or Connecticut class battleship in the right corner of the photo. |
Library of Congress photo # pan 6a33626,by W. D. Lambert; submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
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573k | Atlantic Fleet entering Golden Gate 6th May 1908. | Library of Congress photo # pan 6a33669, from the Panoramic View Co., Chas. Z. Bailey, Mgr., Los Angeles, Cal. submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 468k | Missouri (BB-11) in a California port, 1908. The photo is from a collection called "California Reception to the Fleet 1908. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 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. | |
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104k | Post card welcoming the "Great White Fleet" to Australia, circa August-September 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106181-KN. Courtesy of Mrs. Ruth Mayfield, 1973. | |
 | 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. | |
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100k | Postcard published in Japan to commemorate the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit there in October 1908. This card features pictures of the Fleet's sixteen battleships, plus images of three Japanese ladies, plus flags and symbols of the United States and Japan. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106114-KN. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 242k | Rowland, maternal grandfather of the contributor's photo, stands on the right on the foredeck of the battleship Missouri (BB-11) in 1908. | Photo courtesy of Don Cochrane. Photo added 07/30/09. | |
 | 114k | Battleships of the Second Squadron, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, saluting during their visit to Amoy, China, circa 30 October - 5 November 1908. The U.S. Ships are anchored in line of Divisions, with the Third Division closest to the camera. Louisiana (BB-19), flagship of the Second Squadron and Third Division, is partially visible at the far right. Astern of her in the same line are Virginia (BB-13) (right center) and Missouri (BB-11) (left center). The Fourth Division is anchored just beyond the Third Division's line. Wisconsin (BB-9), Fourth Division flagship, is toward the right [between Virginia and Louisiana]. Astern of her (in no particular order) are Kearsarge (BB-5) and Kentucky (BB-6). The four grey ships, in the most distant line, all appear to be Chinese cruisers. | US Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 106148. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. | |
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71k | One of the Fleet's Sailors checking his funds, perhaps preparing to pay for a camel ride. Photographed at Ephesus in January 1909, when ships of the Fleet's Third Division, Louisiana (BB-19), Missouri (BB-11),Ohio (BB-12) & Virginia (BB-13) visited Turkey. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106136. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
 | 94k | Postcard of the Missouri (BB-11) in drydock at Charleston Navy Yard in Boston, where she was placed in reserve 1 May 1910. Photo probably dates from after her return from her "Great White Fleet" cruise to before her modification. | Photo courtesy of timepassagesnostalgia.com & submitted by Tom Kermen. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
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