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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. | |
 | 395k | Recreation Hour on the Georgia (BB-15), during the "Great White Fleet's" voyage around the World on 17 Sept. 1907. | Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. Photo added 07/30/09. | |
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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. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 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. | |
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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. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 290k | The "Great White Fleet" in the Straits of Magellan, 1908, from a painting by Henry Reuterdahl. | Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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95k | Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, second in Command of the "Great White Fleet", made the Georgia (BB-15) his flagship. | Digital ID: ggbain 00897. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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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. | |
 | 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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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. | |
 | 138k | Post card published by H.H. Stratton, Chattanooga, Tennessee, depicting the Fleet's Sailors parading in Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, circa 17 July 1908. The Men in this group are from Georgia (BB-15). | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106173-KN. Donation of Mrs. Ruth Mayfield, 1973. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. | |
 | 84k | Atlantic Fleet battleships steaming in parallel columns during their cruise around the World. Photographed from on board Georgia (BB-15) looking forward from her midships port side. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 105990. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
 | 79k | Georgia (BB-15) takes water over the bow while steaming through a Pacific Ocean storm in mid-1908, during the "Great White Fleet's" voyage around the World. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106059. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. | |
 | 89k | Georgia's (BB-15) officers and men of the ship's after turret crew pose with their target, circa 1907-1908. The original picture inscription reads "Cause and Effect". This photo may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet's" cruise around the World. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106063. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. | |
 | 79k | "Prize winning gun crew" pose on the Georgia's (BB-15) after eight-inch/twelve inch turret, superposed during the ""Great White Fleet's" cruise around the World, 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106064. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. | |
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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. | |
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92k | Halftone reproduction of a photograph by H.R. Jackson, showing the Fleet's senior commanders on board ship, circa late 1908 or early 1909, during or shortly after the "Great White Fleet's" World cruise.
Those present are, from left to right: Rear Admiral William P. Potter, Commander, Fourth Division; Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, Commander, Third Division; Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet and First Division; Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, Commander, Second Division. |
US Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 106140. Copied from "Pictorial Log of the Battle Fleet Cruise Around the World", by Chief Turret Captain Roman J. Miller (A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1909).Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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