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 | 118k | Navy Recruiting Poster, circa 1909. Poster featuring a sailor, a South Carolina class battleship, small craft and details on pay and benefits, published about 1909. | USNHC # NH 65452-KN. | |
 | 364k | Port side view of a model of the South Carolina (BB-26) at US Navy's Modeling Basin in VA. | Courtesy of Mike Ley. | |
 | 187k | Starboard and mast view of the South Carolina (BB-26) as completed, Drawing by A.L. Raven. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 78k | Bow decoration, photographed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 18 November 1909, during the final months of her outfitting. This fancywork had been removed by March 1910. Note anchors. | USNHC # 19-N-20-12-16. | |
 | 110k | Seen four days after commissioning on 5 March 1910, the first American Dreadnought. | USN photo. | |
 | 66k | South Carolina (BB-26) passing Moro Castle during her departure at Havana Harbor, Cuba, during her shakedown cruise, 7 April 1910. | Courtesy of maritimequest.com. | |
 | 90k | South Carolina (BB-26), possibly at Newport News, VA., shortly after commissioning. Probably when she sailed for repairs at Norfolk, naval militia training duty, and Atlantic Fleet maneuvers off Provincetown and the Virginia Capes, from the end of June until the beginning of November, 1910. | USN photo by Brown Brothers, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 62k | Panoramic 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. | |
 | 67k | In New York Harbor, 3 October 1911. Photographed by the New York Navy Yard. | USNHC # NH 44250. | |
 | 59k | Off New York City, probably in early October 1911. | USNHC # NH 73256 | |
 | 88k | Crew photo, 29 November 1912, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. | Contributed by Richard Leonhardt. | |
 | 94k | Photographed circa 1910-14. | USNHC # NH 44252. | |
 | 90k | Underway, circa 1910-14. | USNHC # NH 61225. |  | 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. |
 | 74k | Experimental coaling at sea while under way in April 1914. Rigging between the two ships was used to transfer two 800-pound bags of coal at a time. The bags were landed on a platform in front of the battleship's forward 12-inch gun turret, and then carried to the bunkers. Original photo is printed on a postal card, inscribed on the reverse: "This is a picture of us coaling at sea last April. I have put a cross over where I stood. I unhooked bags of coal when they came over. It is raining when this picture was taken. We were out of sight of land off coast of Virginia. "The donor, a seaman in South Carolina (BB-26) at the time, comments: "it showed that this was possible but a very slow method of refueling. Nothing was heard of the test afterwards." | USNHC # NH 76012. | |
 | 74k | South Carolina (BB-26) steaming under forced draft, bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico, in Mid-April 1914. View looks aft and up, with the battleship's "cage" foremast and the top of her starboard boat crane dominating the image. Note searchlights and signal hoists. | USNHC # NH 76015. | |
 | 108k | U.S. Navy Landing Party. Photographed on board ship, probably at the time of the Vera Cruz incident, circa April 1914. These sailors are wearing Marine Corps flannel shirts and khaki trousers, with dyed "white hats". They are posing with M1903 "Springfield" rifles and at least one man is wearing an ammunition belt. The ship may be South Carolina (BB-26) . | USNHC # NH 100832. | |
 | 94k | In the locks of the Panama Canal, Photographed circa 1914. The ship may be South Carolina (BB-26) . | Courtesy of John D. Fielden, MM2, USN (ssb) Northridge, CA. | |
 | 62k | "Battleship South Carolina (BB-26) at a distance of nine miles, firing on a target seen between the towers of water during the naval games in Chesapeake Bay, just concluded. The observers on a sister ship in the foreground are only a few hundred yards away." | USN photo by Enrique Muller Jr, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times 31 October 1915, page 8. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
 | 41k | "The target when the South Carolina (BB-26) had finished firing." | USN photo by Enrique Muller Jr, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times 31 October 1915, page 8. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
 | 56k | U.S. Atlantic Fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1916-1917. Second section from left (of six) of a panoramic photograph taken from the Naval Station radio tower. Among the ships present are: battleships South Carolina (BB-26) and Michigan (BB-27) (toward the left, in no particular order); destroyers Drayton (left center) and Aylwin (center, middle distance); and a battleship that is either Wyoming (BB-32) or Arkansas (BB-33)(right foreground). | USNHC # NH 76418 photo courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Donation of MMC Jesse Forton, USN (Retired), 1972. | |
 | 51k | Inboard profile of the South Carolina (BB-26) 1918. Her large mast base chart house has been removed and her conning tower enlarged, with a small fire control section ("tower") at its rear end. These ships had the base of their mainmasts covered in canvas through most of their careeers. These bases covered the engine room hatches. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 211k | Starboard view, circa 1916. | Photo by E. Muller, Jr. Contributed by Roy C. Thomas from the book, "The United States Navy", published in 1919. | |
 | 62k | "A Wonderful Oportunity For YOU", World War I era Navy recruiting poster, by artist Charles E. Ruttan. The ship in the background may be South Carolina (BB-26). | USNHC # NH 78806-KN. | |
 | 65k | Leviathan (ID # 1326) in New York Harbor, 1918, with a tug steaming by on the right and a battleship in the left background.
Photographed by E. Muller, Jr., 198 Broadway, New York City, and printed on postcard stock. The ship in the photo is either South Carolina (BB-26) or Michigan (BB-27) (this is the after portion of the ship we see). The significant tell-tales are the "step-in" on visible funnel and its distance from the main mast (other dreadnought classes crowded the funnels and mast together) and the location of end of the foredeck. The foredeck for the Delaware class(BB-28 / 29) and Florida class(BB-30 / 31) ended near the fore mast, whereas here we see most of the secondary battery gunhouse atop the foredeck (rather than casemates in the hull) and the foredeck continuing aft to the mainmast before stepping down to the main weather deck. The structure between the funnel and mast is the kingpost of the portside boat crane with a 3" gun platform on top; in this class the starboard side crane was situated outboard of the forward funnel. The size and shape of the fighting top is also consistent with the a South Carolina Class. The barrels of the No. 4 are concealed by the bow of the Leviathan but the turret is visible. The structure sitting above where the No. 3 turret should be as well as that, which extends from it to the Leviathan's bow above the No. 4 Turret would seem to belong to another ship anchored beyond the BB, its funnel being visible above the Leviathan's foredeck (note the black funnel cap). Throughout 1918, both ships were on training duty and convoy escort along the east coast until the Armistice when both were used as transports to bring troops home. To determine which of the 2 BB's this is, it would be helpful to know when each would have made port in NYC at the same time as the Leviathan. The Leviathan reportedly received her dazzle scheme in March 1918 at Liverpool, while postwar photos (March 1919) show her sporting an overall drab (probably gray) scheme. As the photo does not show her decks teeming with GI's we can assume that the photo shows her entering harbor after taking a load of troops to Europe (i.e. pre-armistice). During this time she made 8 trips to Europe. NHC attributes dazzle photos of the Leviathan in NYC in early July and Mid April. Leviathan was painted out of camouflage by 16 December 1918, when she arrived at N.Y. with 8000 homeward-bound troops on board, and was almost certainly painted overall gray before leaving for France to pick up that batch of Soldiers, which (given her transit speed of about 23 knots) would have been about two weeks earlier (say, late November or very early December). As for what Leviathan was doing at the time the photo was taken, I can't say for sure. It is possible that the Leviathan was returning to New York (actually across the Hudson River at Hoboken, N.J., which was her base) after taking troops to France. However, she might also just be shifting position in N.Y. Harbor. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 105389. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007. Photo I.d. courtesy of Chris Hoehn & David C. Nilsen. Additional text courtesy of Charles R. Haberlein Jr. | |
 | 116k | April 1921, Rail manned and just fired a salute from one of her 3" secondary guns. | USN / USNHC # NH 97499. | |
 | 68k | The South Carolina (BB-26) lies high and dry at the Portsmouth Navy Yard Dry Dock in this undated photo. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 116k | Scene at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, December 1923, with guns from scrapped battleships in the foreground. One of these guns is marked "Kansas " presumably an indication that it came from Kansas (BB-21). Ship being dismantled in the backround is South Carolina (BB-26). | USNHC # NH 69035. | |
 | 85k | South Carolina (BB-26) being used as a test hulk for anti-torpedo bulges on 26 May 1924. | USN photo. | |
 | 131k | The Washington Treaty provided both for discarding large numbers of ships and for reconstructing the survivors. The South Carolina (BB-26) was used to test the torpedo protection blisters planned for reconstruction of the existing battleships. She is shown at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 26 May 1924, before and during the first explosion. The blister is the dark area amidships. Another experimental blister was built on her other side. Note the removal of her turrets and her fire control tops, as a measure of demilitarization in compliance with the new treaty. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 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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