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51K | Launching of the North Dakota (BB-29) at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 10 November 1908. Note that the ship wears a bow decoration, a feature removed before her completion. | Photograph # NH 93814, courtesy of the Submarine Force Library & Museum, Groton, Connecticut. | |
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79k | Installing a 12"/45 gun in a battleship gun turret. This is probably Turret # 3 of either Delaware (BB-28) or North Dakota (BB-29). The view may have been taken while the ship was under construction, circa 1909-1910. The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock. A handwritten inscription pencilled on its reverse ("Franklin") has no obvious bearing on the subject of the photo. | USNHC photo # NH 105785, Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008. Photo added 05/24/09. | |
 | 121k | Bonita (SS-15); Tarpon (SS-14); Narwhal (SS-17); and Snapper (SS-16); (listed from left to right) Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909. North Dakota (BB-29) is in the right background, also fitting out. | Photograph # NH 99005, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
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80k | Running trials in 1909. Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston. Note the five-inch gun mounted in a low sponson forward. This gun and sponson were soon removed. | USNHC # NH 44729. | |
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133k | North Dakota (BB-29) as modified after completion of trials. Wet casemate gun has been moved up to the superstructure 01 level, and the searchlights have been relocated to her derrick tops, all of the lights in one group to a side. Light towers, next to the aft stack, have been eliminated. | USN photo. | |
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94k | View on deck of the North Dakota (BB-29) looking forward from aft, showing smoke from an oil tank explosion. The image bears a date that appears to be 8 September 1910. Photographed by F.B. Jones. The original image is printed on postal card ("AZO") stock. | Photograph # NH 103077, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005. | |
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59k | Machinist Charles Church Roberts, USN had been awarded the Medal of Honor (whose ribbon he wears in this photograph) for "heroism in the line of his profession" during a fire on board North Dakota (BB-29) on 8 September 1910. He was a Machinist's Mate First Class at that time. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 105428-B. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007. Photo submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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199k | A cancelled post card / photo of the North Dakota (BB-29) dated 19 Sept. 1910. In her first years North Dakota operated with the Atlantic Fleet in maneuvers along the East Coast and in the Caribbean. Note that her aft smokestack is painted with 3 rings. |
USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. 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. |  |
109k | Captain Charles Peshall Plunkett was the first Commanding Officer of the battleship North Dakota (BB-29) after she was commissioned on 11 April 1911. | Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress via Bill Gonyo. |  |
325k | The North Dakota (BB-29) probably getting ready for Admiral Togo's visit at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 15 August 1911. Note the ship's gig in the foreground labeled ND. | Digital ID: # 2162985657_81e29c83e7_o. LC-B2-2333-6. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. |  |
188k | Admiral Togo visits the North Dakota (BB-29) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 15 August 1911. | Digital ID: # ggbain 09527v, LC-B2-2249-13. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. |  |
158k | Admiral Togo leaving the North Dakota (BB-29). | Digital ID:# ggbain 09526v, LC-B2-2249-12. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. |
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135k | North Dakota (BB-29) at anchor in harbor, 1911. | USNHC # NH 2895. | |
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95k | Underway in 1912. | USNHC # NH 44734. | |
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95k | Underway about 1912. | USNHC # NH 61218. | |
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50k | Heavy seas coming over the Foc'sl, 8 Dec. 1913. | Courtesy of Philip H. Robare RMCS, USN - RET. | |
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93k | Group of officers and men posed on the boat deck of the North Dakota (BB-29), circa 1913-14. Among those present are: Captain Charles P. Plunkett, Commanding Officer (seated in center); Commander Orton P. Jackson; and Electrician's Mate 1st Class Mason Dunlap (seated at lower left). | USNHC # NH 85195. |  | 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. |  |
68k | North Dakota (BB-29) sailor poses in the breech of the left 12"/45 gun of Turret # 5, at the New York Navy Yard, 14 March 1914. The original photo is printed on postcard stock, inscribed on the reverse: "To Luther, from Phil". Note that this man wears the Seaman Gunner Mark, with "E" below his chevrons. | USNHC # NH 100784 courtesy of Carter Rila, 1986. |  |
145k | Sailors loading coal on board the battleship North Dakota (BB-29), 20 Apr. 1914. | Digital ID:# ggbain 3c37317v, LC-USZ62-137317. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. |  |
133k | North Dakota (BB-29) firing a broadside with her twelve-inch guns, prior to World War I. Mast details have been retouched in this photograph. | USNHC # NH 73765. |
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