Photo Caption:

"A FLOCK OF UNCLE SAM'S PEACE DOVES AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY-YARD

The work of preparing the warships for their 13,000-mile voyage into the Pacific, and of keeping of all other vessels in the highest state of efficiency, is being prosecuted with all possible dispatchat all of the United States Naval Stations."

In the photo - Battleship INDIANA (upper left), armored cruiser PENNSYLVANIA (middle left), armored curiser COLORADO (top center), battleship ALABAMA (Center), armored cruiser MARYLAND (left), and armored cruiser WEST VIRGINIA (foreground).

Library of Congress Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-66021

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Starboard broadside image of the USS West Virginia (ACR 5) at anchor ca. 1905 at an unknown location.

Library of Congress, LC-D4-21845

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43749.

Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farneholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1932.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 60326.

The USS West Virginia (ACR 5) arrives at Mare Island in May 1908. The USS Ohio (BB 12) is in the foreground to the right.

U.S. Navy Photograph

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 83128.

USS Huntington (CA 5) sits in the Brooklyn Navy yard Dry-Dock, date unknown.

Photo courtesy of the National Naval Aviation Museum

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92173.

Seaplane on catapult of USS Huntington during summer of 1917 in vicinity of Pensacola, FL

Photo courtesy of: State Archives of Florida

Martin Thomas seaplane on fire on the ship's catapult, 7 June 1917. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103800.

Catapulting a Curtiss "F" type flying boat while underway, 25 June 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 44221-A.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 44910.

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1918, while the ship was painted in pattern camouflage.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 41797.

Underway at sea, 1918. Probably photographed from USS Mercury (ID # 3012). Note her pattern camouflage, large wave breaking over her bow and coal smoke issuing from her funnels. Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103792.

Underway at sea, 1918. Probably photographed from USS Mercury (ID # 3012). Note her pattern camouflage. Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103793.

Steaming with a troopship convoy, 1918. Though identified on the original print as USS Frederick (ACR 8), the camouflage pattern worn by this ship marks her as Huntington. Collection of George K. Beach.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103848.

In a harbor in 1918. Note her pattern camouflage, and that of the two freighters in the right and left distance. Collection of Arthur J. Rozett.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103797.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46895.

Raised bow view, port side of the S-2 (SS 106) at her dock trials at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth New Hampshire, June 4th, 1921. The S-10 (SS 115) is pictured inboard. Further inboard is the armored cruiser Huntington (CA 5). She had been decommissioned on 1 Sept. 1920.

US Navy photo # 19-N-7607, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)