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50k | Amphitrite (BM-2) under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard, circa 1895. The wood backing for the armor has been set in place but the belt is not yet installed. The tall military mast which was typical of the "New Navy" monitors can be seen. | USN photo & text courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 41, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596. | |
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20k | A line drawing by A.D. Baker III of the monitor Amphitrite (BM-2) as completed. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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65k | Amphitrite (BM-2) circa 1895. | USN photo courtesy of "Battleships" by Anthony Preston, printed by Bison Books, Ltd, 1982. | |
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55k | Amphitrite (BM-2) at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA, during the 1890s. | USNHC photo # NH 58949. | |
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53k | Amphitrite (BM-2) at anchor off the Boston Navy Yard, 27 August 1901. | USN photo & text courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 40, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596. | |
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77k | Amphitrite (BM-2) underway in this undated photo. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
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30k | "The U.S. monitor Amphitrite (BM-2), with the aid of tugs and derricks, laying across the narrows below quarantine. The buoys from which are suspended the stell nets closing the harbor to submarines." | Photo by International News Service, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 25 February 1917, Page 4. | |
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209k | "Flotilla A, Destroyer Force". Tied up with sterns to the wharf in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, while awaiting decommissioning, circa May 1919. Other ships in the background include a Monitor, three old battleships and several torpedo boats. Panoramic photograph by Frawley and Collins, Mount Holly, New Jersey. Ships in the foreground are (from left to right): Dale (DD-4); Lawrence (DD-8); Perry (DD-11); Whipple (DD-15); Truxtun (DD-14); A barge; Worden (DD-16); Barry (DD-2); Hull (DD-7); Hopkins (DD-6); Bainbridge (DD-1); Stewart (DD-13); Paul Jones (DD-10); Decatur (DD-5); Preble (DD-12); Preston (DD-19); Flusser (DD-20); Lamson (DD-18); Reid (DD-21); and Isabel (SP-521). Ships in the background are (from left to right): Amphitrite (BM-2);ex-Iowa (BB-04) outboard; ex-Massachusetts (BB-02) inboard; and ex-Indiana (BB-01). Several torpedo boats are moored alongside the old battleships. |
Photograph # NH 105512, from the collections of the United States Naval Historical Center. Photo added 02/24/08 | |
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67k | Amphitrite (BM-2) drying signal flags in the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, while awaiting decommissioning in May 1919. Image cropped from a panoramic view (Photo # NH 105512) by Frawley and Collins, Mount Holly, New Jersey. | USNHC photo # NH 105512-A. Photo added 02/24/08 | |
![]() | 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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