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68k | Port side view, date unknown. | Roy Thomas | |
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147k | Starboard bow view of the USS Olympia (C-6); date and place unknown. | Darryl Baker | |
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220k | Officers of the Olympia, date unknown. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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65k |
USS Olympia (C-6) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa July 1895. Photo from the William H. Topley Collection, courtesy of Charles M. Loring, Napa, CA, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 76121. |
USNHC | |
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46k |
USS Olympia (C-6) At Hong Kong, circa April 1898, probably just prior to the declaration of war. Olympia has been repainted from peacetime "white and buff" into wartime grey. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Dutreaux Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 84575. |
USNHC | |
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131k | Photo taken September 27, 1898 shows the ship in her original design configuration. The forward 8" twin turret is visible here. | USN | |
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55k |
USS Olympia (C-6) Photographed in 1898-99, while serving as flagship of Admiral George Dewey, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Squadron. Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 43346. |
USNHC | |
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70k |
USS Olympia (C-6) Photographed by Hart, New York, upon her return to the United States in 1899. She is flying the four-star flag of Admiral George Dewey. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 2894. |
USNHC | |
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80k |
USS Olympia (C-6) Photograph copyright 1899 by E. Chickering. Collection of Paymaster William R. Pattison. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 93400. |
USNHC | |
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59k |
USS Olympia (C-6) In New York Harbor following her arrival from Manila, circa late September 1899. The original photograph was copyright by B.L. Singley and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company. Note small steam launch in left foreground, with a rowed water "taxi" boat beyond. Courtesy of Louis Smaus, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 100316. |
USNHC | |
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65k |
USS Olympia (C-6) Oil on canvas by Francis Muller, circa 1900, showing Olympia leading a column of cruisers. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. Navy Art Accession #: 44-6-I. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 47388-KN. |
USNHC | |
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65k |
Close up image of the USS Olympia stern plate, Boston Navy Yard, 1901. Digital ID: ggbain 03312 Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division |
Bill Gonyo | |
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95k |
Starboard quarter while at anchor in 1902. Taken by E. Muller. |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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104k |
Starboard quarter while at anchor in 1902 (same as above but cropped differently). Taken by E. Muller. |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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203k |
Port Bow, February 10 1902. Image # (19-N-13918). |
National Archives | |
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129k | USS Olympia (C-6) at Boston Navy Yard, 1 November 1902. | USN | |
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283k | Port bow view at anchor, 27 SEP 1908. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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33k | Starboard quarter view while in Drydock #1, Charleston Shipyard, Charleston, SC, 2 October 1915. | Robert Hall | |
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114k | Shown here in July, 1919 as rearmed with a uniform battery of ten 5"/51s. She was reclassified IX-40 in June, 1931 but remained basically in this configuration until officially becoming a museum ship in 1957. At that time she was restored to her original appearance. | USN | |
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64k | 1945, as IX-40, Port bow view. | National Archives | |
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Battleships in dry-dock; Tennessee
(BB-43) & California
(BB-44) taken between 8 May and 27 October 1946. This photo comes from the U.S.Naval Institute and has an accompanying photocopy identifying all of the surrounding ships. It does identify the two cruisers as Detroit (CL-8) (inboard) and Trenton (CL-11) (outboard). It also identifies two returned U.K. DEs: HMS Rupert (DE-96) outboard of Olympia (ex-C-6) (IX-40), and HMS Berry (DE-3) ahead of the cruisers, and visible in the California's photo (it's still wearing its British hull #--K312). The Naval Institute photo was taken at a later date, as more of the "packaging" on the two battleships had been completed. According to Tennessee's deck logs, she entered Drydock #5 with California on 8 May 1946. South Dakota (BB-57) (mid-stern section visible at upper left of photo) subsequently entered Drydock #4--the 1946 "Navy Day" program from the shipyard indicates that this had taken place by 27th October of that year. The four CLs that were scrapped in Drydock #4 at the Philadelphia NSY
were: Omaha (CL-4), Cincinnati
(CL-6), Raleigh (CL-7)
and Marblehead (CL-12). The remaining CLs; Detroit (CL-8),
Trenton (CL-11), Richmond (CL-9), Concord (CL-10)
and Memphis (CL-13) were all sold
to the Patapsco Scrap Co. of Baltimore. The sales bid (B-76-47AV T)
was opened on 6 Dec 46; the five ships were sold for $336,140 (or $67,228
each), and custody of the ships was transferred to Patapsco between
27 December 46 and 21 January 47. The "light colored objects" in front of the two cruisers might "possibly" be barbettes from the Illinois (BB-65). According to drawings in the 1945 "Gun Mount and Turret Catalog", these two items appear to be about the same diameter as the barbettes for the two BBs' Tennessee & California; 14"/50 triple gun turrets; inside diameter 31 feet, from the same source -- outside diameter would have been about 33 feet. The Illinois barbettes would have an inside diameter about 37 1/4 feet, outside diameter rather over 39 feet. |
USN photo submitted by Joe Lewis, courtesy of U.S.Naval Institute. Majority
text by Joe Lewis. Chuck Haberlein contributed to the (BB-65) i.d. with text. Photo added 08/07/07. |
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75k | 1957, as IX-40 prior to transfer to the Cruiser Olympia Association, Stern quarter view. | National Archives | |
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68k | 1957, as IX-40 prior to transfer to the Cruiser Olympia Association, Starboard bow view. | National Archives | |
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54k |
USS Olympia (IX-40), still in her haze grey paint, being pushed by tugs to her new home in Philadelphia, September 1957 Treasure Island Museum-SFCB |
Robert Hurst |
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345k | Brochure from the Cruiser Olympia Association, circa 1970's. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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169k | Brochure from the Cruiser Olympia Association, circa 1980's. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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95k | 1985, at Penn Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Port Bow view. | Dale C. Haskin | |
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92k | 1985, at Penn Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Port Quarter view. | Dale C. Haskin | |
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25k | 1985, at Penn Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Starboard Quarter view. | Dale C. Haskin | |
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152k | 1985, at Penn Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Open bridge (theoretically, Commodore Dewey's GQ station during the Battle of Manila Bay) and pilot house. | Dale C. Haskin | |
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113k | 1985, at Penn Landing, Philadelphia, PA, Officers Quarters. | Dale C. Haskin | |
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233k | Port side view, date unknown. | National Archives | |
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104k | Philadelphia, January 14, 1997. | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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87k | Philadelphia, January 14, 1997. | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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USS Olympia at her permanent berth alongside the USS Becuna (SS-319) in Philadelphia on 15 November 1999. She is outfitted and painted in the same manner as when she entered Manila Bay over a century ago. | Robert Hurst | ||
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173k | At the the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 01 July 2006. | Wendell McLaughlin | |
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201k | At the the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 01 July 2006. The submarine inboard of her is the Becuna. | Wendell McLaughlin | |
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180k | Ship's bell, 01 July 2006. | Wendell McLaughlin | |
| 310k | Deck plan of Olympia, from the Independence Seaport Museum | Robert M. Cieri | ||
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank | Final Rank | Dates |
| Read, John J., CAPT | 02/05/1895 - | |
| Gridley, Charles Vernon, CAPT | 07/28/1897 - 06/05/1898 | |
| Lamberton, Benjamin Peffer, CAPT | 05/25/1898 - 11/08/1899 | |
| Decommissioned | 11/08/1899 - 01/02/1902 | |
| Howard, Thomas Benton, CAPT | 01/1902 - | |
| Niblack, Albert Parker, CAPT | 1905 - 04/02/1906 | |
| Decommissioned | 04/02/1906 - 05/15/1917 | |
| Decommissioned | 08/26/1907 - 06/01/1908 | |
| Decommissioned | 09/01/1908 - 05/14/1909 | |
| Decommissioned | 08/28/1909 - 1916 | |
| Cole, William Carey, CAPT | RADM | 10/1910 - 06/03/1912 |
| Christy, Harley Hannibal, CAPT | VADM | 08/19/1917 - 09/07/1918 |
| Upham, Frank Brooks, CDR | RADM | 09/07/1918 - 01/1919 |
| Boyd, David French, CAPT | 01/1919 - 12/1919 | |
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
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