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 | 104k | Model of the name sake Connecticut class (BB-18) and her five sisters: Louisiana (BB-19), Vermont (BB-20), Kansas (BB-21), Minnesota (BB-22), New Hampshire (BB-25), as built, dated 23 March 1928. | Photo from National Archives & Record Administration (NARA), Record Group RG-19N, Box 33. Courtesy of Dan Treadwell. | |
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81k | The Vermont (BB-20) slides into the Fore River, at Quincy, MA., during her launching on 31 August 1905. | Photo courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart. | |
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73k | Photographed on 20 August 1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photo # 19-N-12828 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
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53k | Photographed on 20 August 1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 19-N-4-16-13 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
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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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73k | Underway in heavy seas, circa 1907-1909, possibly during the cruise around the World of the "Great White Fleet". | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 101072. | |
 | 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. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 59552. | |
 | 111 | Steroscopic color print of the Connecticut (BB-18) with the battleships Louisiana (BB-19) on her starboard side and the Vermont(BB-20) on her port, circa 1908. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 119k | Text of the reverse side of the steroscopic color print of the Connecticut (BB-18) with the battleships Louisiana (BB-19) on her starboard side and the Vermont (BB-20) on her port, circa 1908. | Courtesy of Paul Petosky. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 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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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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47k | World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09. Port side bow view of the Vermont (BB-20) 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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73k | Receiving her new "cage" masts and other alterations, probably at the Boston Navy Yard, circa March-June 1909. | Photograph # 19-N-4-16-18 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives / U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
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73k | Photographed by Brown & Shaffer, during the last half of 1909. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 101502. | |
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24k | Vermont (BB-20) in port, circa 1909. Photographed by Edward M. Mitchell. | Courtesy of John D. Fielden, MM2, USN (ssb) Northridge, CA. | |
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Battleships anchored in the Hudson River, off 145th Street, New York City, during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 25 Sept - 9 Oct. 1909. Photograph by Thaddeus Wilkerson, 522 W. 145th St., New York, reproduced on a postal card.
Ships present are (from left to right): Louisiana (BB-19); Idaho (BB-24); Kansas (BB-21); Vermont (BB-20) & Connecticut (BB-18). Identification on the first two listed is certain. That on the last three is probable. |
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 91471, Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1980. | |
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