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480k | Anchored in a bay, the cage mast of another battleship is visible near her rear turret. | US National Archives photo # 80G-1035068 from NARA, College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert. Photo added 04/04/12. | |
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68k | Photographed by Brown & Shaffer in 1909, soon after she had been fitted with a "cage" foremast. | USNHC # NH 101508. | |
 | 3.54k | FOOTBALL SQUAD OF THE BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA (BB-14). Football Title at Stake Jackies Clear Snow Off American League Park for Championship Battleship Game. |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 31 December 1909, Image 9, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.51k | SOME BRILLIANT PLAYS IN FOOTBALL GAME FOR BATTLESHIP CHAMPIONSHIP YESTERDAY "Red" Magruda' Leads the Nebraska (BB-14) Eleven To Well Earned Victory over Missouri (BB-11). |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 02 January 1910, Image 10, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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70k | Underway off New York City, 22 July 1910, shortly after she had received her "cage" mainmast. | Photograph USNHC # NH 101508 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. |
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98k | The Nebraska (BB-14) continued duty with the Atlantic Fleet. She appears here docked probably in a Atlantic port in a photo dated 15 October 1910. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 62k | Panoramic image (made from two individual views), showing U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships and auxiliaries in Guantanamo Bay, circa the early or middle 1910s. Ships present include (in left half of image): four Virginia class (BB-13 / 17) battleships, one South Carolina class (BB-26 / 27) battleship, one Delaware class (BB-28 / 29) battleship, two unidentified auxiliaries and a collier; (in right half of image): all six Connecticut class (BB-18 / 22 & 25) battleships, both Mississippi class (BB-23 / 24) battleships, two unidentified auxiliaries, hospital ship Solace (AH-2) and a gunboat. | USNHC # NH 104537. Photo from the 1909-1924 album of Vice Admiral Olaf M. Hustvedt, USN (Retired). Courtesy of Rick Hauck, 2006. | |
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96k | View from the foremast head, looking toward the bow, while the ship was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 22 February 1911. She is dressed with flags in honor of George Washington's birthday. | USNHC # NH 77183. | |
 | 4.34k | A HOLY TERROR This is the most dreadful looking thing of human fabrication on earth — namely a first-class battleship running full speed under forced draught, seen bow on, coming down on you twenty knots an hour. The Nebraska (BB-14), shown here with a big bone in her teeth, is one of the crack fighters Uncle Sam has gathered off Cape Cod for the biggest naval war game ever played by American ships. |
Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo from The Tacoma Times. (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 21 July 1911, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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49k | In the Hudson River, off New York City, 3 October 1911. The Palisade Amusement Park is in the right distance. | Photograph USNHC # NH 101508, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. |
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94k | Nebraska (BB-14) probably off New York City, circa 1912. | Digital ID # ggbain 04443v, LC-B2-943-4. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection. | |
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164k | Ship's baseball team, 1912. | USNHC # NH 45672. | |
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116k | Ship's football team, 1912. Note inscription on football in lower center, identifying the team as that year's champions of the Third Division (Atlantic Fleet). Photographed by E.A. Hodge, Boston, Massachusetts. | USNHC # NH 45673. | |
 | 859k | Battleship to Mobilize With Gunboats at Key West UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA (BB-14). PRESENCE OF VESSELS EXPECTED TO AWE REBELS |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 25 May 1912, FINAL EDITION, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 980k | THE UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA (BB-14). Which ran on some unchartcd rocks off Point Judith. MUST GO INTO DRYDOCK |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 10 August 1912, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 1.66k | Map Showing Where Warships Are Going The battleship Virginia (BB-13) is hurrying to Tampico and the battleships Vermont (BB-20), Nebraska (BB-14) and Georgia (BB-15) to Vera Cruz. |
Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo by The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 13 February 1913, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 489k | MARINES LAND AT VERA CRUZ Badger's Ships Ordered to Blockade Harbor of Vera Cruz Five of the Battleships Which Will Participate in Blockade |
Image and text provided by University of Oregon, Knight Library;
Eugene, OR. Photo courtesy of The Evening Herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906- 1942, 21 April 1914, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 71k | U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships steaming toward Mexican waters in 1914. Photograph copyrighted in 1914 by E. Muller, Jr., and Pach. The following battleships that were dispatched to Mexican waters included the: Ohio (BB-12), Virginia (BB-13), Nebraska (BB-14), Georgia (BB-15), New Jersey (BB-16), Rhode Island (BB-17), Connecticut (BB-18), Louisiana (BB-19), Vermont (BB-20), Kansas (BB-21), Minnesota (BB-22), Mississippi (BB-23), Idaho (BB-24), New Hampshire (BB-25), South Carolina (BB-26), Michigan (BB-27), Delaware (BB-28), North Dakota (BB-29), Florida (BB-30), Utah (BB-31), Wyoming (BB-32), Arkansas (BB-33), New York (BB-34) & Texas (BB-35) . In insets are (left to right): Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger. | USNHC # NH 60322. | |
 | 377k | The fourth division of the U.S. Battleship Fleet on the firing line, Southern Drill grounds. This photo is taken from the Nebraska (BB-14), the name of which is written on a life preserver. The lower photo shows the U.S. battleship Michigan (BB-27) taking aboard a drenching spray from a heavy swell. |
Photo by Enrique Mueller Jr. Text courtesy of N.Y. Tribune, 9 May 1915, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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275k | Postcard reproduction of the above photo by Enrique Mueller Jr of the fourth division of the U.S. Battleship Fleet on the firing line, Southern Drill grounds. | Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 196k | Michigan in the lead followed by Nebraska, (BB-14) exercise together between 1910 & 1915. | Digital ID # ggbain 09626, LC-B2-2272-9. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 4.42k | "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 Virginia (BB-13) is leading the ships shown in the photograph to the left, and is followed by the Rhode Island (BB-17), Nebraska (BB-14), Georgia (BB-15), New Hampshire (BB-25) and Louisiana (BB-19) in the order named. | Photo by International News Service, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 23 May 1915, Page 3. PDF image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo by The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 19 May 1915, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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55k | "Blue Jackets tumbling overboard from the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) after a day of "fighting" in the recent war games off the Rhode Island coast, 29 August 1915." | USN photo by Enrique Muller Jr, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 29 August 1915. | |
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97k | The Navy Cross is awarded to Captain Guy Hamilton Burrage for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility as commanding officer of the Nebraska (BB-14) from 27 April 1915 to July 1918. | Photo from the Library of Congress via Bill Gonyo. Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE Photo & text by Omaha Daily Bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 25 July 1915, EDITORIAL SOCIETY, Image 13, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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168k | Port bow of the Nebraska (BB-14), camouflaged at Norfolk Va., 20 April 1918. | U.S.National Archives # 165-WW-335A-44. | |
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145k | Oil on canvas painting by the artist Wayne Scarpaci titled "Brazilian Convoy", showing the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) in a "Watson/Norfolk scheme 3, which is a very unique camouflage. At Hampton Roads 16 May 1918 Nebraska received on board the body of the late Carlos M. DePena, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Uruguay, with full honors, departing Hampton Roads the same day and arriving Montevideo 10 June in company with Pittsburgh (ACR-4), flagship of the Pacific Fleet. The Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, came on board for the ceremonies and the body of the late Uruguayan Minister to the United States was transferred with full honors. Nebraska departed Montevideo 15 June for home, arriving Hampton Roads 26 July. |
Drawing courtesy of artbywayne.com Text courtesy of DANFS. |
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66k | At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, circa June - July 1918. Note her elaborate camouflage scheme. | USNHC # NH 50066. | |
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77k | Wearing an experimental camouflage scheme, circa 1918. | USNHC # NH 101208. | |
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169k | Captain Ridley McLean was the Commanding Officer of the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) from September 1918 to September 1919. | Photo from the Library of Congress via Bill Gonyo. | |
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39k | Inboard profile of Nebraska, (BB-14) 1919. Cranes and masts have been omitted for clarity. Note the central station and battle radio station, both installed during modernization. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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60k | At Boston, Massachusetts, 19 July 1919. New Jersey (BB-16) is on the opposite side of the pier, with superstructure and forward gun turret visible. Taken by Crosby, Naval Photographer, Boston. | USNHC # NH 73977. | |
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96k | Port Side View, 1919. | USN photo courtesy of Larry Bonn. | |
 | 141k | Aerial view of the California (BB-44) in mid stream after her launching at Mare Island on 20 Nov 1919. Other ships on the yard's waterfront on that date include from the top to bottom are: Tacoma (C-18) & Denver (C-14); below the cruisers are the battleships Nebraska (BB-14) & Georgia (BB-15); below the battleships and partially hidden by smoke are the destroyers Hamilton (DD-141), Litchfield (DD-336), Zane (DD-337) & Kennison (DD-138); below the destroyers is the outfitting berth for California; in dry dock #1 are H-7 (SS-150) & Lamberton (DD-119); and finally the bottom ship is the USAT Madawaska. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
 | 310k | Nebraska (BB-14) makes her way through the Panama Canal. On 22 June 1919 Nebraska was detached from the transport service and shortly thereafter sailed to join Division 2, Squadron 1, U.S. Pacific Fleet, for operations along the west coast under command of Captain P. N. Olmstead until she decommissioned 2 July 1920. | Text courtesy of DANFS. US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
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256k | Nebraska (BB-14) entering Dry Dock #2 at Mare Island on 17 February 1920, | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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109k | Pacific Fleet Battleships tied up at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in the Spring of 1920. Ships are (from left-center foreground to right-center distance): Georgia (BB-15); Rhode Island (BB-17); Vermont (BB-20) and Nebraska (BB-14). | USNHC # NH 45052. | |
 | 564k | Photo of the Mare Island Marine football team in the fall of 1920 with the Georgia (BB-15), Nebraska (BB-14) and Rhode Island (BB-17) in the background. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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108k | Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): Farenholt (DD-332), Sumner (DD-333) and Hull (DD-330). The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740 feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over the sill. The destroyers in the back row are MacDonough (DD-331), Corry (DD-334) and Melvin (DD-335). All six ships were dock from 15 Jun 22 until 14 July 22. Masts of the decommissioned battleships Rhode Island (BB-17), Vermont (BB-20), Nebraska, (BB-14) and Georgia (BB-15) are just visible to the left of the dock destroyers. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 70684. Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970. Partial text & photo i.d. courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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18k | Mare Island Navy Yard in late 1923. Ships included the battleships Georgia (BB-15), Nebraska, (BB-14), Vermont (BB-20), and Rhode Island (BB-17), (right center). Also shown is the Tippecanoe (AO-21) and two older cruisers. | Vallejo Naval Museum photo courtesy of Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst. | |
 | 376k | 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. | |
Additional Nebraska Images
4 General Views Of Nebraska From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS NEBRASKA BB-14 History
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