| Click On Image For Full Size Image | Size | Image Description | Contributed By And/Or Copyright |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 46k | "American dreadnoughts & super-dreadnoughts steaming into New York harbor 14 April 1919." The Texas (BB-35) leads the procession with a airplane on her turret catapult. Note the escorting biplane. The "escorting" aircraft is either a Curtiss HS-1 or HS-2 (note the single engine) can't tell which from the photo. The aircraft on a fly-off platform atop the No. 2 turret of the Texas is 1 of 6 Sopwith Camels purchased from Britain at the end of the war. The platforms were a British concept designed to provide the fleet with an aircraft capable of reaching the high flying Zeppelins which the German Navy occasionally used as scouts. The Texas was the only US Battleship to be fitted with turret fly-off platforms while in Europe and was the test bed for this program in the US Navy. Not visible in this view is a stripped down (No fabric and no wings) Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter lashed atop the No. 3 Turret. The platforms were eventually mounted on all 14" gun BB's through the New Mexico class (with mixed reviews from their commanders) and carried either a Hanriot HD-1 or a Neiuport 28. Though equipped inflatable floats for water landings, this tended to do a lot of damage not the least of which was dowsing a hot engine in cold salt water. By 1920 a successful compressed air catapult was developed and were being mounted on the aft deck of all 4 turreted battleships and fly-off platforms were removed. The Texas and New York (BB-34), because of their 5 Turrets, lacked the deck space for the catapult and had to make do with a float plane (Vought VE-7) sitting on the aft deck which would be launched by lowering it over the side for a surface take-off. If you look carefully at the 12th photo from the bottom on the New York 1919 - 1926 page, you see the VE-7 on the deck and the A-frame hoist used for handling it. | Photo by Paul Thompson; text courtesy of N.Y. Times 31 December 1919, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text i.d. courtesy of Chris Hoehn. |
|
 | 975k | How the Atlantic Fleet looked to the camera man in a seaplane flying over lower Manhattan a week ago yesterday morning as the mighty armada came up the bay to anchorage in the Hudson off Riverside Drive for a two weeks' vacation after months of strenuous maneuvers in Southern waters. The destroyers
Dale (DD-290) and Flusser (DD-289) are shown leading the column of eight dreadnoughts: Oklahoma (BB-37), Nevada (BB-36), Arizona (BB-39), flagship Pennsylvania (BB-38), Utah (BB-31), Florida (BB-30), North Dakota (BB-29) and Delaware (BB-28) past the Statue of Liberty at a fifteen-knot clip. In
addition to the big battleships, the fleet includes thirty-two destroyers, numerous supply ships and several submarines. The Atlantic battleship fleet is home again. Here are the twelve great first line fighting ships that are paying Father Knickerbocker a two weeks' visit. Over a hundred of Uncle Sam's grim sea warriors gray the North River, while their 30,000 sailor-men are given the freedom of the city in a royal welcome home. The Battleship Mississippi (BB-41) leading the fleet into the harbor, as photographed from an airplane. Note the airplanes atop the forward and aft turrets. |
Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 20 April 1919, Image 48, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
|
 | 70k | Delaware (BB-28) underway, 1919. | USN photo courtesy of Larry Bonn. | |
 | 190k | Starboard bow view on 1 January 1920, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | National Archives photo # 19-N-28-29-4. | |
 | 65k | Firing her 12"/45 main battery guns during battle practice, 26 June 1920. | USNHC # NH 60569. | |
 | 154k | The crew of the Delaware (BB-28) crowd the deck as she passes through the Pedro Miguel Locks at the Panama Canal, 20 January 1921. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 188k | Delaware (BB-28) in 1921. | US National Archives photo # 80G- 1035090 from NARA, College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert. Photo added 03/27/12. | |
 | 109k | The Delaware (BB-28) in 1921, a line drawing by A.L. Raven. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 88k | Florida (BB-30) steaming in line abreast with two other ships of Battleship Division FIVE, Atlantic Fleet, during an exercise in about 1921. The other ships are Delaware (BB-28) and North Dakota (BB-29). Photographed by A.E. Wells. | USNHC # NH 93421. | |
 | 49k | "Combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in Panama Bay, 21st Jan. 1921".
Right section (of three) of a panoramic photograph taken by M.C. Mayberry, of Mayberry and Smith, Shreveport, Louisiana. Among the ships present in this image are (from left to right): Sicard (DD-346), Hatfield (DD-231), North Dakota (BB-29), Delaware (BB-28), Brazos (AO-4), Prometheus (AR-3), Utah (BB-31), Oklahoma (BB-37), Bridge (AF-1), Nevada (BB-36), Schenck (DD-159), Arizona (BB-39), Black Hawk (AD-9), Dickerson (DD-157), Dahlgren (DD-187), Herbert (DD-160), Columbia (CA-16), Cleveland (PG-33), Tacoma (PG-32), Semmes (DD-189) and one other destroyer. | Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, D.H. Criswell Collection. Photo # NH 86082-C, courtesy of Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 83k | CAPT. Robert Whitehead McNelly was the commanding officer of the battleship Delaware (BB-28) from 12 Dec.1921 to 1922. | Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress via Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 96k | Florida (BB-30) gives Naval Academy Midshipmen a "taste of salt water" on their annual cruise, during the early 1920s. She is followed by Delaware (BB-28) and North Dakota (BB-29). | USNHC # NH 54181. | |
 | 819k | Panoramic photo of the U.S. fleet in Panama Bay (Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal) on 1 March 1923. 70 vessels are viewed; the Battle Fleet consists of all U.S. battleships from the Delaware (BB-28) through the Idaho (BB-42). | Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, courtesy of Tom Kermen. Copyright R.G. Lewis, Y Photo Shop, Balboa, C.Z." | |
 | 99k | Florida (BB-30) entering Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia in 1923. She is followed by two other U.S. Navy battleships. The other two battleships might be the Delaware (BB-28) & North Dakota (BB-29). DANFS records that they made midshipmen cruises to Europe during that time before they were decommissioned later in the fall. |
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 54180. | |
 | 127k | In dry dock at the South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 30 January 1924. The ship has been stripped in preparation for scrapping. Note propellers, rudder, armor belt and heavy fouling on her underwater hull. | USNHC # NH 54675. | |
 | 490k | Scrapping the 12-Inch guns of the Delaware (BB-28) at South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, April, 1924. | USN photo courtesy of USNI & submitted by Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 98k | Delaware (BB-28), January 1925, in Philadelphia being scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. | USNI / USN. | |
 | 926k | 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, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil, Defense Visual Information Center. | |
DELAWARE BB-28 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Not Applicable To This Ship
Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.
| Back To The Main Photo Index | Back To The Battleship Photo Index Page |
This page is created and maintained by Micahel Mohl
All Pages Copyright © 1996-2012 Paul R. Yarnall © 1996-2012 NavSource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.