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47k | Photographed in 1909 by Brown & Shaffer. | USNHC # NH 101506. | |
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40k | Photographed in 1909 by Edward M. Mitchell. | Courtesy of John D. Fielden, MM2, USN (ssb) Northridge, CA. | |
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73k | Crew dressed in whites while under way, circa 1909 - 1919. | USN photo courtesy of Barbara Starling. | |
 | 62k | Panoramic image (made from two individual views), showing U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships and auxiliaries in Guantanamo Bay, circa 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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74k | Dressed with flags, during a naval review, circa 1911-13. | USNHC # NH 45483. | |
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54k | New Jersey (BB-16) firing her forward turret's guns during short-range gunnery practice, circa 1913. Photographed by Sargent. | From the album of Francis Sargent; Courtesy of Commander John Condon, 1986. USNHC # NH 101062. | |
 | 62k | Atlantic Fleet Battleships steaming down Chesapeake Bay after visiting Annapolis, Maryland, circa 1913. Photographed by Sargent, probably from on board Rhode Island (BB-17). Next ship ahead is New Jersey (BB-16), with Georgia (BB-15) ahead of her. Six "Dreadnought" type battleships are leading the column. | From the album of Francis Sargent; Courtesy of Commander John Condon, 1986 / USNHC # NH 101064. |  | 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. |
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93k | Four sailors of the ship's landing party, with cartridge belts and M1903 rifles, March 1915. They are identified as (left-to-right): Bell, Johnson, Thomas and Marshall. Note base of one of New Jersey's (BB-16) "cage" masts behind them. | USNHC # NH 91202. | |
 | 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. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
 | 38k | "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 on the right with the 3 smoke stacks is too unclear to make out for positive I.d. aside from being either from the Maine (BB-10 / 12), Virginia (BB-13 / 17) or Connecticut (BB-18-22 & 25) classes. | Photo by International News Service, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 23 May 1915, Page 1. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
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56k | New Jersey (BB-16), port side view, circa 1917-19. | Courtesy of Philip H. Robare RMCS, USN - RET. | |
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488k | Experimental WW I camouflage, port side view of the New Jersey (BB-16), circa 1918. It was called a MacKay "disruptive low-visibility pattern" and the photo was taken while the Navy was testing it against range finders. Note that even the ship's boat alongside is camouflaged in the same pattern. The Battleship off the stern of the New Jersey is most likely the Rhode Island (BB-17). |
NARA FILE #: 1165-WW-335A-48. Photo # HD-SN-99-02137, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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65k | Experimental WW1 camouflage, starboard view, circa 1918. | USNHC # NH 100409. | |
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64k | At Boston, Massachusetts, 3 May 1919. Photographed by Crosby, Boston, using a wide-angle camera. | USNHC # NH 73781. | |
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45k | At Boston, Massachusetts, 3 May 1919, with tugs alongside. Photographed by Crosby Naval Photographer, Boston. | USNHC # NH 61240. | |
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129k | Starboard side view 1919. | USN photo courtesy of Larry Bonn. | |
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92k | Launching of the Neches (AO-5) at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 2 June 1920. Panoramic photograph, taken by the Chester Photo Service, 39 Court Street, Boston. Neches is in the center of the image. The U.S. Army Transport George Washington is at right, and New Jersey (BB-16), is at left. Note the crowd of onlookers on the ships, piers and buildings flanking Neches, and the large number of double-ended lifeboats in the right foreground. |
Photo # NH 105178, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Donation of O.J. Hemphill. | |
 | 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. | |
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120k | Article on the finding of the New Jersey (BB-16) in 1994 and a 80th year flyover on the day of her sinking that took place on 5 September 2003. "Bombs screamed as they descended on the New Jersey, sinking it off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The bombing was no accident and the enemy was the friendly fire of American bombers led by flying legend Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell. On Sept. 5, 1923 - 80 years ago today - those early bombers sank the armored New Jersey and its sister ship, the Virginia (BB-13) in one of the first demonstrations of air power over naval power. The military will commemorate the anniversary with a flyover today at Hatteras. The ships, once part of the Great White Fleet of President Theodore Roosevelt, were doomed to destruction because of a disarmament agreement after World War I. Now they are relegated to the great blue deep. It would be 70 years before anyone would see the New Jersey again. In 1994, two divers descended 340 feet to the submerged wreck, which rests upside down and is partially buried in silt. "It's a dangerous dive because of the depth and the current, but we could not have asked for better diving conditions. It was ideal, and the view was stunning," said diver Michael Boring, a federal government worker who now lives in Germany. They described the 441-foot-long New Jersey as remarkably different in appearance from the hundreds of other wrecks off the treacherous Carolina coastline. "While other wrecks are covered with sea life and take on a ghostly appearance, the New Jersey was clean and its hull intact and not even rusted," said Douglas Buckley of Maryland, the other diver. "We just happened to pick a spectacular day to view the ship but could only stay down 12 minutes because a storm was approaching," Boring said. "Unfortunately, we don't have any video or pictures. "It was our first dive to over 300 feet so Doug and I were more interested in trying to stay alive." They were surprised to find little hull damage. Because the water was so unexpectedly clear and the ship so clean, Buckley could see it well even 100 feet above it. The hull is devoid of sea life such as anemones, sponges and barnacles because of the silt carried by the swiftly moving warm water of the Gulf Stream and the colder Labrador Current, which converge where the New Jersey lies. "The two propellers are huge and gleam like shining yellow bronze because the silt sandblasts their surfaces as it is pushed along by the Gulf Stream," said Buckley, who was the first recreational diver to go down to the Civil War ironclad Monitor not far from the New Jersey. Art Kirchner, a dive boat captain from Rockaway, Morris County, who took them out to the ship, said he does not believe any other divers have ever seen the New Jersey, though others have gone to the Virginia. "Nobody has been back. They were the first and only ones to ever go down and see it without a doubt," said the sea captain, who takes divers out every summer off Hatteras in Margie II, his specially equipped 36-foot boat. He said the New Jersey is three miles east of Diamond Shoals Light and about 16 miles from the barrier island of Hatteras. It also rests about five miles northeast of the spot where the Monitor, one of the first two Civil War ironclads, lay until it was raised recently. The divers said it took only eight minutes to descend along the dive boat's anchor line even with extra tanks filled with a mixture of helium, nitrogen and oxygen strapped under their arms. They need the extra tanks on their 90-minute ascent, which was necessary to achieve proper decompression of their lungs. The new Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras has a special exhibit on the bombings. It is part of North Carolina's "First in Flight" celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers. William Schwarzer, project director and author of a new book, The Lion Killers: Billy Mitchell and the Birth of Strategic Bombing, said the ship was target practice for biplane bombers, the Martin MB-2 and lighter DeHaviland DH4. They took off from two locations, a special airfield built at Hatteras for the bombardment and Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. He said the bombings also marked the first use of the newly developed bombsight known as the Mark 2, or DeSeversky. It didn't take long for the ships to sink. "The New Jersey and the Virginia each took less than an hour, which was pretty quick," he said. An Army Air Service video at the museum shows the New Jersey being hit by a number of bombs weighing between 600 and 2,000 pounds. The final blow was at the rear mast of the ship. Air bubbles were visible in the water after the final bomb struck, indicating the hull was penetrated. The vessel, still fairly intact, listed to port then capsized and sank." |
Courtesy of courierpostonline.com. | |
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