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 | 821k | The First Electric Battleship Uncle Sam Plans A Surprise for the Naval World In the Construction of the First and Only Electric Battleship - The New California To Be Propelled and Operated Solely By Electricity One of the New 14 Inch Guns for the California |
Image and text provided by University of Vermont. Photo & text by Burlington Weekly Free Press. (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 28 January 1915, Image 10, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 962k | The United States new superdreadnought California whose keel will be laid at the New York Navy Yard in the near future, will be the first electrically driven dreadnought in the world. New California Will Be Only Battleship in World to Use This Power Serious Problem of Launching the Monster Seafighter Pennsylvania (BB-38). |
Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo & text by The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 21 March 1915, FOURTH SECTION PICTORIAL SECTION, Image 49, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 693k | NO OTHER NAVY WILL HAVE SHIP LIKE CALIFORNIA WHEN SHE IS COMPLETED The keel of the superdreadnaught California, destined to be the greatest of battleships, was laid at the navy yard in Brooklyn. The event was an epoch in naval construction, and among those who participated were Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, commandant of the great yard in which the California will be rushed to completion; Rear Admiral Robert S. Griffin, the engineer in chief of the navy, and Rear Admiral David W.Taylor, chief of the bureau of construction in Washington. Her name would be changed before her commissioning to New Mexico (BB-40). | Text i.d. courtesy of Mike Green. Photo by American Press Association. Image and text provided by Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH & University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Democratic Banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 19 October 1915, Image 1 & The Broad Ax.(Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 30 October 1915, Image 2, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 3.92k | Electricity to Make Our Latest Battleship Mightiest In World In the presence of a great throng the keel of the oil-burning turbine engine battleship California was laid with impressive ceremonies at the Brooklyn navy yard. | Photo by Underwood and Underwood. Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo from The Tacoma Times. (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 01 November 1915, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
 | 451k | THE NEW BATTLESHIP NEW MEXICO (BB-40). This is a picture of the model for the new battleship New Mexico. It will be the greatest dreadnaught afloat when completed. Its sister ships will be the Mississippi (BB-41) and Idaho (BB-42). | Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo from El Paso Herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 07 April 1916, HOME EDITION, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 713k | MIGHTY ENGINES FOR OUR NEWEST WARSHIPS THE CALIFORNIA - NOT YET IN SERVICE - HAS TURBO ELECTRIC DRIVE |
Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo & text by The Red Cloud Chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 12 October 1916, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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1.10k | "U.S. Navy Yard, Washington. Sight shop, big gun section. 1917: Possible future armament for the New Mexico (BB-40/42) class. | Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress Photo courtesy of shorpy.com Photo added 05/16/13. | |
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53k | "Misses Margaret C. DeBaca Virginia Carr, sponsors for the new dreadnought & members of the launching party which came from New Mexico for the ceremony." | Times Photo Service, text courtesy of N.Y. Times 29 April 1917, Page 1, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. | |
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138k | "Launching at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on last Monday of the U.S. super-dreadnought New Mexico (BB-40), newest, and with her sister ships the largest and most powerful vessels in the Navy, and the world's first dreadnought to be driven by electric power." | Times Photo Service, text courtesy of N.Y. Times 29 April 1917, Page 1, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. | |
 | 950k | NEW U. S. SUPERDREADNOUGHT LEAVING THE WAYS New Mexico (BB-40), Nation's Greatest Battleship, Takes the Water. Navy Yard Closely Guarded for Launching, Witnessed by Only 300 Guests. Huge Oil Burning Super-dreadnought Is First To Be Electrically Driven. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 24 April 1917, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |
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331k | Main battery drawn out as construction continues on the New Mexico (BB-40), 6 Oct. 1917. | Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive - courtesy National Archive and Records Administration, Northeast Region - NYC, Record Group 181 via flickr.com. | |
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610k | Port forward quarter of the New Mexico (BB-40), 6 Oct. 1917. | Photo No. f1060n14, Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive - courtesy National Archive and Records Administration, Northeast Region - NYC, Record Group 181 via flickr.com. | |
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623k | New Mexico (BB-40) in Dry Dock #4, Bow view, Jan. 1918 | Photo No. N3480, Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive - courtesy National Archive and Records Administration, Northeast Region - NYC, Record Group 181 via flickr.com. | |
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1.4m | New Mexico (BB-40) in Dry Dock #4, portside looking aft, Jan. 1918 | Photo No. N3478, Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive - courtesy National Archive and Records Administration, Northeast Region - NYC, Record Group 181 via flickr.com. | |
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577k | New Mexico (BB-40) starboard view, shortly after commissioning, May 1918. | Courtesy of Seaman 2nd Class Ralph D Gummerson via Al Gummerson & Tom Bateman & Philip H. Robare RMCS, USN - RET. | |
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105k | Capt. Ashley Herman Robertson was the Commanding Officer of the New Mexico (BB-40) from May 1918 to September 1918. | Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress via Bill Gonyo. | |
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