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BB-20 USS VERMONT
1910 - 1923

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1904 - 1909

Connecticut Class Battleship: Displacement 16,000 Tons, Dimensions, 455' 10" (oa) x 76' 10" x 26' 9" (Max). Armament 4 x 12"/45 8 x 8"/45, 12 x 7"/45 20 x 3"/50, 4 21" tt. Armor, 9" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 9" Conning Tower. Machinery, 16,500 HP; 2 vertical, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 18 Knots, Crew 881.

Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Fore River, Shipbuilding, Quincy, MA., May 4 1904. Launched August 31 1905. Commissioned March 4 1907. Decommissioned June 30 1920. Stricken November 10 1923.
Fate: Sold November 1 1923 and broken up for scrap.
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BB-20 Vermont 61k Vermont (BB-20) at anchor in Philadelphia, circa 1910. Photographed by J.W. Dawson and contributed by Philip H. Robare RMCS, USN - RET.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba62kPanoramic image (made from two individual views), showing U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships and auxiliaries in Guantanamo Bay, circa the 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.
BB-20 Vermont 70k Vermont (BB-20), port side view, circa 1912. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 61787.
BB-20 Vermont 197k Picture side of the Post card of the Vermont (BB-20), sent by E.W. Raugh of Norfolk Va. to Clara Stork of Gogebic, Mich. 7/23/13, "Hello - On the other side is the $8,000,000 dollar home of mine, I have been on for 40 months, 452 feet long. E.W. Raugh U.S. Navy." Courtesy of Don Gray.
Connecticut Class189kTwo Connecticut class (BB-18-22/25) battleships pictured against the background of a Guantanamo Bay sunset, 1913-14. Courtesy of Bob Mabin. Photo i.d. courtesy of Geoffry Woods.
BB-18 Connecticut99kRear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, USN (center, front)with Mexican Officials and U.S. Navy Officers on the quarterdeck of a U.S. Navy battleship off Vera Cruz, probably at the time of the U.S. intervention there, circa April-November 1914. Many of those present are identified on Photo # NH 95151 (complete caption). Photographed by Hadsell, Vera Cruz. The ship appears to be one of the Connecticut class (BB-18-22/25). Note 12"/45 guns, with sub-caliber rifles and sighting training devices mounted on them. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 61208.
U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships71k 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. 		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 60322.
BB-32 Wyoming25k"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.
Atlantic Fleet38k"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.
BB-20 Vermont 81k View looking aft on the main deck of Vermont (BB-20), while she was steaming in heavy seas during the Nineteen "teens". Note man standing by the ladder leading to the quarterdeck whaleboat. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 101060.
BB-20 Vermont 62k Stern view of the Vermont (BB-20) in New York City harbor, 1918-19. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 94208.
BB-20 Vermont 70k Photographed circa 1918-19. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 67492.
BB-20 Vermont74k Vermont's (BB-20) crew line the decks as the ship makes slow headway into port, possibly after 26 August 1917 when she sailed for Hampton roads for duty as an engineering training ship in the Chesapeake Bay region. She performed that vital function for almost the entire duration of hostilities, completing the assignment on 4 November 1918, a week before the armistice stilled the guns of World War I. USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. Text courtesy of DANFS.
Connecticut Class Battleships104kConnecticut Class (BB-18 - 22 & 25) battleships steaming in column, probably during a training operation circa 1918. Letterpress reproduction of a photograph. It was published with a quite incorrect caption identifying these ships as units of the Sixth Battle Squadron in the North Sea.USNHC # NH 105386. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007.
BB-20 Vermont68kSmall boats pull alongside the Vermont (BB-20) with the crew dressed in whites, most probably going off to liberty in this late teens photo. USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-20 Vermont 114k In the middle west chamber, Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal to the Pacific on 26 July 1919. Note awning spread over the battleship's foredeck. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 50392.
BB-20 Vermont 126k In the upper west chamber, Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal with the Pacific Fleet, 26 July 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 75724.
BB-20 Vermont89kVermont (BB-20) arriving at Mare Island on 28 September 1919. USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
BB-20 Vermont 75k Photographed circa 1919-1920. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 67497.
BB-15 Grorgia 109k Pacific Fleet Battleships tied up at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in the Spring of 1920. Ships are (from left-center foreground to right-center distance): Georgia (BB-15); Rhode Island (BB-17); Vermont (BB-20) and Nebraska (BB-14). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 45052.
BB-20 Vermont 44k 7 August 1921, San Diego bay. Curtis H-boat patrol plane flying alongside. NHC / USN photo.
BB-20 Vermont 165k The Vermont (BB-20) with 1921 era Blue Angels filling the skies above the ship. Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Mare Island 108k Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): Farenholt (DD-332), Sumner (DD-333) and Hull (DD-330). The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740 feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over the sill.
The destroyers in the back row are MacDonough (DD-331), Corry (DD-334) and Melvin (DD-335). All six ships were dock from 15 Jun 22 until 14 July 22. Masts of the decommissioned battleships Rhode Island (BB-17), Vermont (BB-20), Nebraska, (BB-14) and Georgia (BB-15) are just visible to the left of the dock destroyers. 		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 70684. Partial text & photo i.d. courtesy of Darryl Baker.
Mare Island 18k Mare Island Navy Yard in late 1923. Ships included the battleships Georgia (BB-15), Nebraska, (BB-14), Vermont (BB-20), and Rhode Island (BB-17), (right centre). Also shown is the Tippicanoe (AO-21) and two older cruisers. Vallejo Naval Museum photo courtesy of Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst. Photo added 04/28/08.
(NISMF)376kA 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.
Additional Vermont Images
4 General Views Of Vermont From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS VERMONT BB-20 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)
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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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