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BB-12 USS OHIO
1899 - 1909

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1910-1923

Maine Class Battleship: Displacement 12,500 Tons, Dimensions, 393' 10" (oa) x 72' 3" x 26' 8" (Max). Armament 4 x 12"/40 16 x 6"/50, 6 x 3"/50 2 x 18" tt. Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 4" Decks, 10" Conning Tower. Machinery, 16,000 IHP; 2 vertical, Inverted, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 18 Knots, Crew 561.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif., April 22 1899. Launched May 18 1901. Commissioned October 4 1904. Decommissioned December 20 1909, Commissioned June 1 1911, Decommissioned May 31 1922, Stricken August 14 1922.
Fate: Sold March 24 1923 and broken up for scrap.
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BB-9 Wisconsin & Friends118kUnion Iron Works, San Francisco, California Panoramic view of shipways and outfitting area, 1900. Wisconsin (BB-9), is fitting out at left. Ships on the ways are (from left to right):
Paul Jones (DD-10);
Perry (DD-11);
Wyoming (M-10);
Ohio (BB-12); &
S.S. Californian. 		Photo # NH 75110, courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1971. The original print is in the Union Iron Works scrapbook, Volume II, page 157.
BB-12 Ohio 613k Ohio (BB-12) being launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif., May 18 1901. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-12 Ohio 114k Ohio (BB-12) conducting Sea Trials in San Francisco Bay on 26 July 1904. The original photo is No. 10 in a series from Turrill & Miller, Photographers, San Francisco. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-60227, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-12 Ohio126k The Ohio (BB-12) anchored in San Francisco Bay, after the completion of Sea Trials in late July 1904. The original photo is No. 19 in a series from Turrill & Miller Photographers, San Francisco. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-60227, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-12 Ohio 90k Drydocked at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, on 19 July 1904. Photographed by Turrill & Miller, San Francisco. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 60224.
BB-12 Ohio 63k On trials in San Francisco Bay, California, 26 July 1904. In the left distance is the ex-Omaha (1872-1915), quarantine ship in San Francisco Bay. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 63139.
BB-12 Ohio 493k Pictured at Mare Island shortly after being commissioned, October 4, 1904. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-12 Ohio 63k At anchor off San Francisco, California, circa 1904-1905. A U.S. Army transport is in the left distance. Photographed by Turrill & Miller, San Francisco. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 44461.
BB-12 Ohio 38k Starboard side view of the Ohio (BB-12) at anchor, circa 1904-1905. USN / USNI photo.
BB-12 Ohio 85k 1906 colored tinted photo by Enrique Muller of the Ohio (BB-12). Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-12 Ohio 84k Slightly different rendition of the same postcard of the Ohio (BB-12) drawn by Edward H. Mitchell Publishers of San Francisco, CA. Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-12 Ohio 19k Circa 1905, portside view as built. USN photo.
BB-12 Ohio 82k Circa 1905-1910, as built, at anchor. USN photo.
BB-12 Ohio 87k Flying a long "homeward bound" pennant, probably upon her return to the United States after duty in Asiatic waters, 1907. Photograph # 19-N-12820 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Great White Fleet 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.
BB-12 Ohio 63k Ohio (BB-12) in the right foreground with the 1st and 2nd Squadrons of the Great White Fleet at Hampton Roads, Va., 12 June 1907. USN photo / # 19-N-12897 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
BB-12 Ohio 90k 12"/40 guns of the ship's forward gun turret, photographed circa 1907-1908. Note Sailors strolling on deck; bell mounted on the pilothouse face; and 3-pounder guns mounted on the superstructure. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 101467.
Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy96kSociety of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy. Attendees at the Society's organizational meeting, in Washington, D.C., February 1908. The photograph was given to the Society by Mrs. Annie Keith Frazier Somerville, one of its founders. Her mother had sent a photographer to Washington's Willard Hotel to take this view. The fourteen sponsors present to organize the Society were (Those identified on the photograph are marked "**"): Mrs. G.F. Toland; ** Mrs. John P. Pels (Miss R.W. Wright), Sponsor of Denver (C-14); ** Mrs. Earl Morgan (Miss Elizabeth Stephenson), Sponsor of Wisconsin (BB-9); Miss Helen Duchler, Sponsor of Ohio (BB-12); Mrs. George Sturdevant (Miss M.L. Drake), Sponsor of Iowa (BB-4); ** Miss Lorna Pinnock, Sponsor of Salem (CS-3); Miss Harriet Rankin; Miss Dorothy Sproul, Sponsor of Chester (CS-1); Miss Ida May Shearer; ** Miss Mary Campbell, Sponsor of Birmingham (CS-2); ** Miss Keith Frazier, Sponsor of Tennessee (ACR-10); ** Mrs. John South (Miss Christine Bradley), Sponsor of Kentucky (BB-6); ** Miss Minnie Conrad, Sponsor of Montana (ACR-13). The little girl is Miss Eleanor Gow. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 95456, from the collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
BB-12 Ohio 114k Chief Petty Officer's quarters, 1908. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-12 Ohio 323k Crew's quarters, 1908. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-12 Ohio 162k Crew's washroom, 1908. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-18 Connecticut185kThe 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.
Straits of Magellan290k The "Great White Fleet" in the Straits of Magellan, 1908, from a painting by Henry Reuterdahl.Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo added 03/20/08.
BB-18 Connecticut139kThe 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.
Great White Fleet 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.
BB-12 Ohio 72k Ohio (BB-12), California (ACR-6) and South Dakota (ACR-9) between May 1908 and July 1908 at Mare Island Navy Yard while assigned to the Great White Fleet. The cruisers are moored next to the yard's coal sheds. This is the only picture I have seen which shows the coal handling equipment installed by the Brown Hoisting Machinery Company in 1904 seen above the coal sheds. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-12 Ohio 214k The Ohio (BB-12) all dressed up for the Empress of China while with the Great White Fleet in November 1908. Photo courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart.
BB-18 Connecticut99kCommanding officers of most of the fleet's ships, photographed in 1908. Those present include (Seated, left to right): Captain Hugo Osterhaus, of Connecticut (BB-18); Captain Kossuth Niles, of Louisiana (BB-19); Captain William P. Potter, of Vermont (BB-20); Captain John Hubbard, of Minnesota (BB-22); Captain Joseph B. Murdock, of Rhode Island (BB-17); Captain Charles E. Vreeland, of Kansas (BB-21).
Standing, left to right): Captain Hamilton Hutchins, of Kearsarge (BB-05); Captain Frank E. Beatty, of Wisconsin (BB-09); Captain Reginald F. Nicholson, of Nebraska (BB-14); Captain Thomas B. Howard, of Ohio (BB-12); Captain William H.H. Southerland, of New Jersey (BB-16); Captain Walter C. Cowles, of Kentucky (BB-06); Captain John M. Bowyer, of Illinois (BB-07); Captain Alexander Sharp, of Virginia (BB-13); Lieutenant Commander Charles B. McVay, of Yankton.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 59552.
BB-12 Ohio 50k World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09. Ohio (BB-12) in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. Two other battleships of the fleet are behind the Ohio. Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, and submitted by Warren McLean.
BB-12 Ohio 71k The "Great White Fleet" transits the Suez Canal, January 1909. Battleships of the fleet nearing Port Said, Egypt, circa 5-6 January 1909, as they approached the Mediterranean Sea during the final months of their cruise around the World. Ohio (BB-12) is in the right center. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 101494.
Additional Ohio Images
4 General Views Of Ohio From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS OHIO BB-12 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
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Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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