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Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, early in 1906. |
Courtesy of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Skerritt Collection / USNHC # NH 45480. |
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Photographed in 1906-07, with a steam launch and coal barges alongside. |
USNHC # NH 19-N-21612. |
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New Jersey's
football team, circa 1906. |
USNHC # NH 45484. |
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At the Jamestown Exposition Naval Review, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2 May 1907. |
USN photo. |
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At the Jamestown Exposition Naval Review, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2 May 1907. |
USNHC # NH 19-N-2-26-15. |
 | 59k | Atlantic Fleet Battleships steaming in line abreast off Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1907. Ship nearest the camera is either New Jersey (BB-16) or Rhode Island (BB-17). | Collection of CQM John Harold / USNHC # NH 101466. |
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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. |
 | 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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 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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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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.
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Photo # NH 105310, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. |
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Crew entertainment aboard the New Jersey (BB-16) during the World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet"; three legged race in 1908. Note the initials of the boat on the davits of the New Jersey.
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USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. |
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World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09. New Jersey (BB-16) in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. | Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, and submitted by Warren McLean. |
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New Jersey (BB-16)
in a China Sea typhoon, 1908. |
USNHC # NH 45481. |
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Commemorative postal cover issued on the occassion of Xmas & New Year aboard the New Jersey (BB-16) circa 1908. |
Courtesy of Jack Treutle. |