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BB-16 USS NEW JERSEY
1902 - 1908


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1909 - 1923


Virginia Class Battleship: Displacement 14,948 Tons, Dimensions, 441' 3" (oa) x 76' 3" x 26' (Max). Armament 4 x 12"/40 8 x 8"/40, 12 x 6"/50 12 x 3"/50, 4 21" tt. Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 9" Conning Tower. Machinery, 19,000 IHP; 2 vertical, inverted, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 19 Knots, Crew 812.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Fore River, Shipbuilding, Quincy MA., April 2 1902. Launched November 4 1904. Commissioned May 12 1906. Decommissioned August 6 1920. Stricken July 12 1922. Transfered to War Department, August 6 1923.
Fate: Sunk as Target by Army Air Corps off Diamond Shoals, North Carolina, September 5 1923.
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BB-16 New Jersey 81k Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, early in 1906. Courtesy of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Skerritt Collection / USNHC # NH 45480.
BB-16 New Jersey 79k Photographed in 1906-07, with a steam launch and coal barges alongside. USNHC # NH 19-N-21612.
BB-16 New Jersey 86k New Jersey's football team, circa 1906. USNHC # NH 45484.
BB-16 New Jersey 92k At the Jamestown Exposition Naval Review, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2 May 1907. USN photo.
BB-16 New Jersey 38k At the Jamestown Exposition Naval Review, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2 May 1907. USNHC # NH 19-N-2-26-15.
BB-17 Rhode Island59kAtlantic 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.
Great White Fleet 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.
BB-13 Virginia class236kStarboard 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.
BB-18 Connecticut99kCommanding 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.
BB-18 Connecticut185kThe 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.
BB-18 Connecticut139kThe 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.
Straits of Magellan290k 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.
Naval Review in San Francisco Bay, 17 May 1908 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.
BB-16 New Jersey 305k 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. USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
BB-16 New Jersey 143k 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.
BB-16 New Jersey 49k New Jersey (BB-16) in a China Sea typhoon, 1908. USNHC # NH 45481.
BB-16 New Jersey 30k Commemorative postal cover issued on the occassion of Xmas & New Year aboard the New Jersey (BB-16) circa 1908. Courtesy of Jack Treutle.

Additional New Jersey Images
5 General Views Of New Jersey From The Library Of Congress Server.

USS NEW JERSEY BB-16 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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