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General Plans for USS Montana as prepared by Portsmouth Navy Yard. |
Ed Zajkowski |
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Starboard side view while underway during Builders Trials, 21 March 1908.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18545 |
Darryl Baker |
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Starboard side view while underway during Builders Trials, 21 March 1908.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18549 |
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Starboard broadside of the USS Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13) underway ca. 1912-1915. Location is unknown (caption updated by Evan Dwyer).
Library of Congress, LC-D4-22806 |
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USS Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13) (left) and USS North Carolina (Armored Cruiser No. 12) (right), moored at Norfolk Navy Yard on 26 October 1908. Note that Montana is still painted in her original White and Buff colors while the North Carolina has reverted back to Gray, as is the rest of the fleet.
Historic Norfolk Navy Yard Glass Plate Collection, #607 |
© Marcus W. Robbins - NNSY History Matters |
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Starboard quarter view while at anchor, ca 1908-1909. Note that the hull was painted all gray prior to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in 1909 (caption updated by Evan Dwyer). |
Mike Hughes |
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Port side view while underway, ca 1908-1909. Note that the hull was painted all gray prior to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in 1909 (caption updated by Evan Dwyer). |
Darryl Baker |
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USS Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13) at anchor in the Hudson River ca. 1909
Library of Congress, LC-D4-22598 |
Mike Green |
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USS Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13) entering Havana Harbor
on 11 April 1910.
Library of Congress digital ID pan.6a23452.
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Mike Green |
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Commander Francis L. Chadwick, Commanding Officer. |
Laird Chadwick |
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4 May 1912, possibly Portsmouth Maine..
National Archives item #165-WW-335D-11 |
National Archives |
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Starboard bow view of USS Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13) underway ca. 1914. Courtesy of D.M. McPherson.
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 84170. |
Mike Green |
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USS Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13) homeward bound with the dead from Vera Cruz, Mexico in April, 1914. Courtesy of Chaplain C.H. Dickens.
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 45988. |
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Soldiers and sailors from the USS Montana at Pier A, The Battery, New York City, before the National Memorial Service on 11 May 1914. USS Montana brought the bodies of the 17 Marines and Sailors that were killed during the battles within the city of Vera Cruz, to the Navy Yard in New York City for a memorial service and to return the remains to their families. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, May 11, 1914) (Caption correction identified by William K. Boone Canovas)
Photo #LC-DIG-ggbain-16190, Library of Congress
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Bill Gonyo |
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Seattle,
Charlotte,
and Missoula in Reserve at Bremerton, Washington sometime between
1919 and 1924. |
Chris Glaeser |
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Missoula (center) with her sister ships Huron
and Charlotte at Puget Sound Navy
Yard sometime between 1927 and 1930, when they were sold for scrap in
accordance with the provisions of the London Treaty for the limitation
and reduction of naval armament. |
Tom Totoris |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank |
Class |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| Reynolds, Alfred, CAPT |
1873 |
|
07/21/1908 - 11/27/1909 |
| Quinby, John Gardner, CAPT |
1878 |
|
11/27/1909 - 07/25/1910 |
| Jones Jr. Hilary Pollard, CAPT |
1884 |
RADM |
07/25/1910 - 10/03/1911 |
| Larimer, Edgar Brown, LCDR |
1899 |
RADM |
10/03/1911 - 1912 |
| Fletcher, William Bartlett, CAPT |
1882 |
RADM |
11/10/1912 - 08/06/1913 |
| Chadwick, Francis Laird, CDR |
1893 |
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08/06/1913 - 01/02/1914 |
| Gilmer, William Wirt, CAPT |
1885 |
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01/02/1914 - |
| Nulton, Louis McCoy, CAPT |
1889 |
RADM |
08/13/1914 - 04/26/1915 |
| Wells, Chester, CDR |
1893 |
|
04/26/1915 - |
| Day, George Calvin, CAPT |
1892 |
RADM |
08/07/1917 - 04/12/1918 |
| Wettengel, Ivan Cyrus, CAPT |
1896 |
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04/12/1918 - |
| Moses, Stanford Elwood, CAPT |
1892 |
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04/07/1920 - 02/02/1921 |
