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829k | Greeks & Turks in Race for Navy READY TO SPRING AT EACH OTHERS THROAT. 150,000 Hellenes Driven From Home Each Nation Ordering Dreadnoughts as Fast as Money Can Buy Them. Pictured here is the battleship Mississippi (BB-23). |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Washington Herald. (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 19 July 1914, Page 7, Image 8,via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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548k | Ex-American warships may see action. Greece's "petticoat" soldiers called out. Pictured below is the Kilkis, the ex-Mississippi (BB-23). |
Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Logan Republican. (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 09 October 1915, Image 6,via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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42k | Now as the Kilkis, the ex-Mississippi (BB-23) appears here in 1922. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
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52k | The Kilkis, the ex-Mississippi (BB-23) appears here at Malta, date unknown. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hurst & Lee Wetherhorn. | |
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57k | Greek battleship, either Kilkis or Lemnos. Photographed in a U.S. port. Kilkis was the former Mississippi (BB-23). Lemnos was originally Idaho (BB-24). | USNHC # NH 77442. | |
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89k | Under attack by German JU 87 dive bombers, at the Greek naval base at Salamis, 23 April 1941. In the lower left, in the floating drydock, is the destroyer Vasilefs Georgios. Kilkis, the former Mississippi (BB-23), was sunk in this attack. The floating dock and destroyer were also sunk (reportedly on 20 April ?), but Vasilefs Georgios was subsequently raised and placed in service by the German Navy as Hermes (ZG-3). | USNHC # NH 54431 photograph and some caption information were provided by Franz Selinger. | |
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74k | Greek battleships Kilkis and Lemnos. Sunk in the basin of the Greek naval base at Salamis after they were hit by German air attacks on 23 April 1941. Seen from the harbor pier following the arrival of the German army. Kilkis, the former Mississippi (BB-23), is in the foreground. Lemnos, ex-Idaho (BB-24), is in the distance, with her guns removed. | USNHC # NH 77470 / German Army. | |
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93k | Greek battleship Kilkis sunk at Salamis, Greece, 1941. | USNHC # NH 54430 / German Army. | |
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58k | Color photo of the Greek battleship Kilkis, looking from the bow on at her sunk at her mooring at Salamis, Greece, 1941. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hurst from Purnells History of the Second World War. | |
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201k | Figurehead of the Battleship Mississippi (BB-23), presented to the State of Mississippi By the U.S. Navy Department December 1909. The marker is located in Jackson, Mississippi. | Photo & text by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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170k | The bell of the Mississippi (BB-23) was used on three ships named for the state, it was donated to Rosalie Mansion and its owners, the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is proudly displayed in the gardens at Rosalie Mansion, on the site of Fort Rosalie overlooking the Mississippi River. Visitors are allowed to ring the bell with the attached pull rope. | Photo & text by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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