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2.94k | THE MINNESOTA (BB-22) TO BE QUEEN OF THE OCEAN | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 10 March 1903, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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2.85k | GREAT BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA (BB-22) SOON TO SLIDE INTO THE SEA Some Time in March the Pride of the Navy Will Be Launched—A Wonderful Craft With All the Latest Ideas in Naval Fighting Machinery—Detailed Description of Her Construction, Armament and Equipment BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA —55 PER CENT COMPLETED—AS SHE LOOKS TODAY ON THE WAYS. | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 04 February 1905, Image 13, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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3.20k | SECOND MINNESOTA (BB-22) WILL BE A FIGHTING MONSTER | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Saint Paul Globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 19 March 1905, Page 35, Image 35, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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3.84k | Pictures of Minnesota scenery to adorn new battleship. | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Saint Paul Globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 26 March 1905, Image 24, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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2.72k | AMERICA LAUNCHES BATTLESHIP AS PEACE MESSENGER WHILE JAP AND RUSS FLEETS NEAR WAR'S HUGE HORROR NEW BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA (BB-22) NOW BRIDE OF SEAS. | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 08 April 1905, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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3.44k | The battleship Minnesota (BB-22) as it shall look when finished. | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Saint Paul Globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 09 April 1905, Image 27, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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3.39k | BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA (BB-22) RESTS ON BOSOM OF THE DEEP FAIR SPONSOR IS AGLOW WITH ZEAL ENTHUSIASM MARKS MISS SCHALLER'S FUNCTION Dazzling Gowns and Gaudy Uniforms. With all the ceremony worthy the launching of so great a battleship, the mighty Minnesota was sent into the water today from her docks in the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company. As the huge hulk of steel, gaily decorated from stem to stern with the national colors, slid down the ways, the thousands of spectators cheered, the naval post band played a national air and all the steam whistles in the vicinity sounded their greetings to the ship. | Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Saint Paul Globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 26 March 1905, Image 24, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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875k | BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA (BB-22) IS QUEEN OF HER CLASS New Record for Eighteen Knotters Established by Local Built Craft MILE AT 19-412 RATE! During Her Standardizing Trial Off Rockland Yesterday the Vessel Maintained Average Speed of 18.87 Knots Per Hour-Forced Draft Run Today | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from Daily Press. (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 25 October 1906, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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75k | Seen here on builders trials at 18.1 knots. | USNI / USN photo. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 577k | Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter takes a tour of a "Great White Fleet" exhibition at Grand Central Station on 11 Oct. 2008. The exhibit commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet which includes models of battleships, artifacts and memorabilia from Sailors aboard the ships and photo displays that tell the of the historical naval mission.
Pictured is a 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). | US Navy photo # N-5549O-006 by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien, courtesy of navy.news.mil. | |
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60k | The Minnesota (BB-22) as completed, line drawing by A.D. Baker III. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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37k | MINNESOTA (BB-22) WILL BE DELIVERED FEB. 27 Shipyard Notifies Navy Department That New Battleship is Completed. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company has notified the navy department that the new 16,000 ton battleship Minnesota is completed, excepting a matter of ordinance equipment, and will be delivered to the government at the Norfolk navy yard on February 27. The delivery will be made by General Manager Walter A. Post and the ship will be accepted on behalf of the navy department by Rear Admiral Berry, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard. The Minnesota will he commissioned about March 1. | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from Daily Press. (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 10 February 1907, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 2.07k | GREATEST AMERICAN FLEET EVER ASSEMBLED IN TIME OF PEACE OR WAR UNDER ONE COMMANDER Great Fighting Sea Monsters At Anchor in Hampton Roads for Spectacular Contrast of U S Engines of War With Foreign Countries Death - Dealing Machines and for Most Powerful and Terrible Peace Plea | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 21 April 1907, Magazine Section, Image 47, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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1.17k | VICTIMS OP THE COLLISION AT SEA. | Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo from Valentine Democrat (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 27 June 1907, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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165k | 12 June 1907 photo of the Minnesota (BB-22) with additional ships of the Fleet in background. Following her shakedown off the New England coast, Minnesota was assigned to duty in connection with the Jamestown Exposition, Jamestown, Va., 22 April to 3 September 1907. | USNHC # 19-N-28-29-4. | |
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342k | Minnesota (BB-22) circa "Great White Fleet", 1907. | Photo courtesy of Arnold Putnam. | |
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230k | Stereoscopic color print of the view from the bridge of the Minnesota (BB-22) during the Jamestown Exhibition. | Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 112k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the route to be taken by the Atlantic Fleet's battleships and their associated Torpedo Flotilla, from their December 1907 departure from Hampton Roads, Virginia, until their planned arrival at San Francisco, California, in the spring of 1908. Text below the chart indicates that it was published in mid-December 1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106219. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
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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. | |
 | 112k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the route of the Atlantic Fleet's battleships from their 29 January 1907 departure from Trinidad until their arrival at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 January 1908. It emphasizes the offshore course taken to avoid strong westerly currents off the northeastern coast of South America. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106221. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
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856k | Minnesota (BB-22) at anchor in 1907. | Photo # 4a31465 from Detroit Publishing Company via Robert Hurst. | |
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115k | Painting by Henry Reuterdahl, depicting Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas on board Minnesota (BB-22) during the Atlantic Fleet's cruise around the World. The artist has inscribed the work to Rear Admiral Thomas. | USNHC # NH 85216-KN, photo courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. Donation of Miss Ruth Thomas. | |
 | 129k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the movements of the Atlantic Fleet's battleships from their 8 February 1908 passage of the western part of the Straits of Magellan until their arrival at Callao, Peru, on 20 February 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106227b. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
 | 290k | The "Great White Fleet" in the Straits of Magellan, 1908, from a painting by Henry Reuterdahl. | Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 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. PDF Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 29 March 1908, Image 5, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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507k | The fleet at San Diego, Calif., 5, May 1908. What looks like two Connecticut (BB-18 / 22 -25) class battleships to the left; a Virginia (BB-13 / 17) class battleship in the center with what might be three other Connecticut class battleships in the immediate distance; two Illinois (BB-7 / 9) class battleships are on the right corner, behind them are the two Kearsarge (BB-5) class battleships and a Virginia or Connecticut class battleship in the right corner of the photo. |
Library of Congress photo # pan 6a33626,by W. D. Lambert; submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
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573k | Atlantic Fleet entering Golden Gate 6th May 1908. | Library of Congress photo # pan 6a33669, from the Panoramic View Co., Chas. Z. Bailey, Mgr., Los Angeles, Cal. submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
 | 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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109k | An officer poses in the breech of one of the after turret's 12"/45 guns, 1908. | USNHC # NH 46030. | |
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3.22k | SAILOR IS WED ON BATTLESHIP'S DECK The accompanying picture shows the principals in the wedding held yesterday on the quarter deck of the battleship Minnesota (BB-22). Reading from left to right: Harry Cockerill, gunners mate, who acted as best man and was himself married two hours before; Seaman Harry L. Heilman, the groom; Mrs. Rose Heilman (nee King), the bride; Miss Pearl Swan, bridesmaid....It was the first time in the annals of the American navy that a bluejacket had been married on the quarterdeck of a battleship.... | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 29 June 1908, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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67k | Minnesota (BB-22) pitching in heavy seas, while bringing fleet mail from Honolulu, circa July 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 105997, photographed by Brown & Shaffer. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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200k | Postcard circa 1908-09. | Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. | |
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104k | Post card welcoming the "Great White Fleet" to Australia, circa August-September 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106181-KN. Courtesy of Mrs. Ruth Mayfield, 1973. | |
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115k | "World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09. Stern view of the Minnesota (BB-22), in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. | Photo courtesy of Warren McLean. | |
 | 901k | THE ATLANTIC FLEET OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY From Official Bulletin of Bureau of Navigation showing the Vessels off the Port of Callao practicing the Gridiron maneuver. This is considered by Naval authorities to be the most dangerous evolution in steam tactics and its improper execution caused the loss of HMS Victoria with 798 men in 1893. Picture faithfully represents the entire Fleet in official formation and vessels can be identified by numbers corresponding to table appended: First Divison 1. Connecticut (BB-18), Flagship, 2. Kansas (BB-21), 3. Vermont (BB-20), 4. Louisiana (BB-19), Second Division 5. Georgia (BB-15), Flagship, 6. New Jersey (BB-16), 7. Rhode Island (BB-17), 8. Virginia (BB-13), 18 Torpedo Flotilla Whipple (DD-15), Truxtun (DD-14), Lawrence (DD-8), Stewart (DD-13), Hopkins (DD-6) & Hull (DD-7) Third Division 9. Minnesota (BB-22), Flagship, 10. Ohio (BB-12), 11. Missouri (BB-11), 12. Maine (BB-10) 17. Yankton {Special Dispatch Tender} Fourth Division 13. Alabama (BB-8), Flagship 14. Illinois (BB-7), 15. Kearsarge (BB-05), 16. Kentucky (BB-6) 19. Auxiliaries Glacier, [refrigerating ship], Panther,[repair ship], Culgea, [storeship] & Arethusa,[torpedo flotilla tender]. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by The National Tribune. (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 24 September 1908, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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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. | |
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100k | Postcard published in Japan to commemorate the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit there in October 1908. This card features pictures of the Fleet's sixteen battleships, plus images of three Japanese ladies, plus flags and symbols of the United States and Japan. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106114-KN. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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106k | Postcard published in Japan to commemorate the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit there in October 1908. This embossed card features a broadside view of a Connecticut class battleship and the message "Welcome American Fleet". | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106121-KN. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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75k | Minnesota (BB-22) pitches her forefoot out of the water during a storm, while steaming from the Philippines to Yokohama, Japan, in October 1908, during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise. | USNHC # NH 91751. | |
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67k | Minnesota (BB-22), port side view. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer, 1909. | Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold / USNHC # NH 101500. | |
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133k | The "Great White Fleet" at Gibraltar on 31 January 1909. | Donated by Eugene B. Canfield, courtesy of Joe Radigan and the U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine, December 2002 issue. | |
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2.15k | SILVER SERVICE PRESENTED BY STATE OF MINNESOTA TO BATTLESHIP OF THAT NAME. | Image and text provided by University of Florida. Photo from The Daytona Daily News.(Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 19 February 1909, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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1.93k | THE MINNESOTA (BB-22) AND $10,000 SILVER SERVICE GIVEN BY STATE | Image and text provided by University of Florida. Photo from The Pensacola Journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 25 February 1909, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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109k | One of the Fleet's Connecticut class battleships at Villefranche, France in 1909. | US Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 106137. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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236k | Scenes from the Minnesota (BB-22). | Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo from The Tacoma Times. (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 30 November 1909, Image 3 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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3.38k | ALL THAT CAN BE SEEN OF THE LAUNCH OF THE BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA (BB-22) WHICH WAS SUNK IN THE NORTH RIVER. HER STACK SHOWS ABOVE THE FLOATING ICE | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune.(New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 31 December 1909, Image 5, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 12/12/11. |
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