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 | 177k | "U.S. Monitors Arkansas (M-7), Connecticut (M-8), Florida (M-9) and Wyoming (M-10)". Pen and ink side elevation and plan view, by the Bureau of Construction and Repair. These monitors (numbers 7-10, respectively) were built under the 1898 ship construction program. Connecticut was renamed Nevada in January 1901, after launching but more than two years before completion. | U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 61879. | |
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69k | Underway, starboard view circa 1903-09, location unknown. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Andrew Toppan / Hazegray & Underway. | |
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58k | The monitors (front to back, left side) Puritan (BM-1), Nevada (M-8), & Florida (M-9) with the cruisers (front to back, right side) Denver (C-14), Cleveland (C-19), & Tacoma(C-18), steam in line abreast, circa probably mid-late 1900's. | USNI / USN photo. | |
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66k | The crew of the Tonopah (M-8) dressed in whites in 1909, while the ship was at anchor, probably on a Sunday. | USNI / USN photo. | |
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73k | Tonopah (M-8) heading out to sea, circa 1914? Originally laid down as Connecticut, she was renamed Nevada to avoid confusion with the pre-dreadnought battleship. She was again renamed in March, 1909 to Tonopah. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of 'U.S. Warships of WW1' by Paul Silverstone. Courtesy of Mike Green. | |
 | 84k | "Eager crowds viewing the submarines at the foot of 135TH street with the Rhode Island (BB-17) in mid stream." The submarine tender is either the Arkansas (M-7), Tonopah (M-8) or Florida (M-9). | Photo by H.H. Russell, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 16 May 1915, Page 1. | |
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View on the Tonopah's (M-8) foredeck, showing 12" guns and crewmen, taken while she was serving as submarine tender at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1917.
Submarines alongside are L-11 (SS-51) and L-9 (SS-49).
Note the workbench, with vise attached, in the left foreground.
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65k | A Mackay style camouflage Tonopah (M-8) taken while she was serving as submarine tender at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 21 December 1917. The submarine alongside is probably an early L-boat; L-1 (SS-41) or L-4 (SS-45). (Note the misspelling in the caption). | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of National Park Service, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS cat. no. BOSTS-14445, submitted by Stephen P. Carlson, Preservation Specialist, Boston NHP, Charlestown Navy Yard. Photo i.d. courtesy of Aryeh Wetherhorn. | |
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64k | Tonopah (M-8) in the harbour at Ponta Delgada, Azores, in April 1918. She is painted in what appears to be Mackay type camouflage. Photo taken from Margaret (SP-527) by Raymond D. Borden. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42515, submitted by Robert Hurst. | |
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344k | Post card of the Nevada (M-8), date and place unknown. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker | |
 | 371k | 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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