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50k | Launch of battleship Georgia (BB-15), Bath, Me. 1904. | USN / Library of Congress # LC-D4-33667. | |
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113k | Making 17.707 knots on Run # 9 of her trials, 13 June 1906. Note that her six-inch broadside guns have not yet been installed. | National Archives # NH 53720. | |
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370k | Probably taken during her shakedown trials off the New England coast, which looks similiar to the above photo. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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73k | Georgia (BB-15) photographed by C.E. Waterman, 1907. | USNHC # NH 73911. | |
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81k | Broadside view of the Georgia (BB-15) in her original configuration as drawn in this postcard by Edward H. Mitchell Publishers of San Francisco, CA. | Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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71k | Georgia (BB-15) as completed, line drawing by A.D. Baker III. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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87k | Ship's officers and crewmen posed on her forecastle, forward gun turret and superstructure, during the Jamestown Exposition, 1907. | USNHC # NH 95663. | |
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57k | Good detail of the secondary battery on top of the main battery. Ship's after "superposed" 12"/40 and 8"/45 gun turret, where an explosion in the 8" (upper) level on 15 July 1907 took the lives of ten crewmen. The photograph was probably taken during the months following the accident. | USN photo. | |
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87k | View looking forward from the stern, showing the ship's after 12"/40 and 8"/45 "superposed" gun turret and her mainmast, circa 1907-08. Note heavy coal smoke issuing from her stacks. | USNHC # NH 101472. | |
 | 236k | Starboard side view of a Virginia class (BB-13 / 17) 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. | |
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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. | |
 | 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. | USNHC # NH 59552. | |
 | 290k | 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. | |
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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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95k | Straits of Magellan, Chile. U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships entering the straits en route to the Pacific, circa 7-8 February 1908, during the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet". Photographed from the afterdeck of Georgia (BB-15). Note her quarterdeck whaleboat, on davits in left center, and "dotter" gunnery practice aiming device at right. | USNHC # NH 101483. | |
 | 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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56k | Georgia (BB-15) in Austraila during the world cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1908. | Photo courtesy of Warren McLean. | |
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86k | Georgia (BB-15) underway & making a lot of smoke during the world cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1908. | USN / USNI photo. | |
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213k | Georgia's (BB-15) marines in formation during the cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1908. | Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
Additional Georgia Images
9 General Views Of Georgia From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS GEORGIA BB-15 History
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