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 | 93k | Idaho (BB-42) (foreground) and Texas (BB-35). Steaming at the rear of the battle line, during Battle Fleet practice off the California coast, circa 1930. Idaho's four triple 14"/50 gun turrets are trained on the starboard beam. | USNHC # NH 73834. | |
 | 87k | Underway at sea, circa the mid-1930s. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # NH 97330, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 66k | Idaho(BB-42), photographed in 1934. | USN photo. | |
 | 66k | The Idaho (BB-42) appears here after her refit at Norfolk Nary Yard, 30 September 1931 - 9 October 1934. The veteran battleship received better armor, "blister" antisubmarine protection, better machinery, and tripod masts during this extensive overhaul, and was readied for many more years of useful naval service. | USN photo # NH 5749, courtesy of Joseph Macdonald. Text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 397k | Idaho (BB-42), photgraphed by J.M. Colasanti probably after completion of modernization on 9 October 1934, when the ship conducted shakedown in the Caribbean before returning to her home port, San Pedro, 17 April 1935. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 242k | The Idaho (BB-42) anchored and riding unknown bay waves with what looks to be a Lexington class (CVA-2/3) aircraft carrier in the far right distance. Circa post 1934. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 242k | New Mexico(BB-40) and her sisters lie in anchor, probably at San Pedro California sometime between October 1934 & 6 December 1940 before she was transferred to Pearl Harbor. | U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of David Buell. | |
 | 280k | Idaho (BB-42) & one of her sisters, New Mexico (BB-40) or Mississippi (BB-41) at anchor in Seattle, circa during her participation in Fleet Week, July - August 1935. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 1.3m | 1936 photo of Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor. Among the ships in the harbor are: On the far left are two New Orleans (CA-32) class heavy cruisers. Neither ship can be positively identified, but I believe the outer one (the one furthest from the camera) to be either New Orleans (CA-32), Quincy (CA-39), or Vincennes (CA-44). The battleships from left to right: Colorado (BB-45), or West Virginia (BB-48), outboard of Idaho (BB-42), Nevada (BB-36), outboard of Mississippi (BB-41), New Mexico (BB-40), outboard of Maryland (BB-46) or California (BB-44). On the far right is the Hospital ship Relief (AH-1) with two unidentified ships ahead and to her port side. | Text courtesy of David Johnston, (USNR) & Aryeh Wetherhorn (USNR). Photo courtesy of Edward Cwalinski, submitted by Barry Litchfield. | |
 | 128k | Ship's company posed on the after deck and after 14" gun turrets, circa 1938. Note Curtiss SOC-3 "Seagull" floatplanes, of Observation Squadron Three, atop the Turret # 3 catapult and on deck to port of the turrets. | USNHC # NH 83900, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 212k | Close up view of the Idaho (BB-42) after modernization, late 1930's. The three New Mexico's (BB-40-42) were the last to be rebuilt. They could be distinguished by their searchlight platforms. The Mississippi and Idaho (BB-42) had theirs far above their controls, with long struts, but the New Mexico(BB-40) hade her control cabins directly under the lights. Quite unlike their presecessors, they had tower masts supporting Mark-28 5-inch directors, the first to combine range finder and calculator into a single unit. The small cylinders were mark 31 directors, with an armored range finder at the forward end of the bridge structure. Below it, were secondary battery controls and battle lookout stations (note the eye slits), with the navigating bridge below that, then the chart house platform, the radio direction-finder platform, and the conning tower platform. Note the four 0.50-calibere machine guns visible on the latter. The radio direction finder itself was housed between the funnel and the bridge structure. The Idaho, fitted as a flagship, had a flag bridge below her navigating bridge. Her chart house was on the radio direction-finder platform. | USN photo. Partial text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 100k | Idaho (BB-42) in the lead and other battleships of the Pacific Fleet in line, late 1930's. | Photo courtesy of Joseph Macdonald. | |
 | 97k | Idaho (BB-42) in the late 1930's. | USN photo courtesy of Joseph Macdonald. Photo added 03/06/08. | |
 | 242k | A New Mexico (BB-40 / 42) class battleship in the van with other battleships of the Pacific Fleet with its air arm over head. This photo dates from no earlier than 25 June 1937, when Douglas began delivery of 114 TBD-1s (the only mono-planes in this picture) and between 20 May 1941 when the New Mexico's were transferred to the Atlantic Fleet. "The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons of rubber, enough to makes 17,000 tires, are used in the construction of each of these battleships. Tons more are needed for the naval planes that are making history over the world. Medical and communication requirements--and countless other needs of the Navy--are met." |
Photograph # LC-USE64 - DC-000944 & partial text courtesy of memory.loc.gov. | |
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