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 | 229k | Commemorative postal cover published by Mrs.Alice W. Morton, of Newport News, Virginia. Thousands line the launching ramps to witness the Virginia (BB-13) sliding into the James River on 5 April 1904. | Photo courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart. | |
 | 100k | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Newport News, Virginia. Photograph of the shipyard's waterfront, showing warships fitting out circa mid-1904, published on a color-tinted postal card by the Detroit Publishing Company. Virginia (BB-13), is in the foreground. Those in the left background are West Virginia (ACR-5) and Maryland (ACR-8), one with four smokestacks installed and the other with three. Note the large number of sailing vessels in the right distance, and the message (dated 15 October 1906) written in the card's margins. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 100748-KN.Courtesy of Carter Rila, 1986. | |
 | 112k | Virginia (BB-13) firing a salute to President Theodore Roosevelt, during the Naval Review at Oyster Bay, New York, 2-4 September 1906. The ship is dressed with flags, and her crew is manning the rails in the President's honor. Photo mounted on a stereograph card, published by the H.C. White Company. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 85676 | |
 | 67k | Virginia (BB-13) in port, circa 1906-1907. | USNHC # NH 105570, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Collection of Warren Beltramini, donated by Beryl Beltramini, 2007. Photo added 03/20/08. | |
 | 99k | Circa 1906-08, Port side view As Built. | USN photo. | |
 | 93k | Dressed with flags and with her crew manning the rail, circa 1907-08. The occasion may be the Presidential Naval Review at Oyster Bay, New York, in September 1906, or the Jamestown Tricentennial Naval Review the following year. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 93057 | |
 | 82k | The crew of the Virginia (BB-13) are dressed in whites in this mid - late 1900's postcard drawn by Edward H. Mitchell Publishers of San Francisco, CA. | Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 236k | Starboard side view of a Virginia (BB-13) class battleship and other ships all decked out with flags flying, possibly in Hampton Roads, Virginia, at the start of the "Great White Fleet" cruise around the world in December 1907. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Photo i.d. courtesy of Erich Coiner. | |
 | 31k | Virginia (BB-13) crewman Nathaniel Dennis lowering a torpedo during practice, circa 1907. | Courtesy of Randall Drum. | |
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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. | |
 | 186k | Great White Fleet in San Francisco Harbor, Virginia (BB-13)
bow on view, 1908. | USN photo / National Archives # 19-N-13360. | |
 | 56k | Starboard side view of the Virginia (BB-13) during the World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09, in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. | Photo courtesy of Warren McLean. | |
 | 83k | Prominent "Great White Fleet" Officers appear in this photo. From left to right & top to bottom: First row: Captain McCrea, Captain Bartlett, Captain Kossuth Niles, of Louisiana (BB-19); Captain Hugo Osterhaus, of Connecticut (BB-18) & Captain Ingersoll. Second row: Captain John M. Bowyer, of Illinois (BB-07); Captain Joseph B. Murdock, of Rhode Island (BB-17); Admiral Bob Evans; Admiral Potter, & Admiral Schroder. Third row: Captain Alexander Sharp, of Virginia (BB-13); Captain Veeder, Captain Murrell, Admiral Wainwright, & Admiral Vaher. | Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy of Warren McLean. | |
 | 99k | Commanding 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. | |
 | 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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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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USS VIRGINIA BB-13 History
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