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Guion liner SS Arizona under way when she held the Atlantic Record, 19 March 1898.
"Marine Engineering", Vol. II, September 1898, page 29; no author listed. Copyright expired. |
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SS Arizona in port, showing damage to her bow received when she struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, 7 November 1879. Location is probably St. John's, Newfoundland.
US Navy photo # NH 63068 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1931. |
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USAT Hancock
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Namesake
John Hancock was born 12 January 1737 in Braintree, Mass., graduated from Harvard College in 1754, and became the wealthiest merchant in Boston. He was president of the Massachusetts-provincial Congress and served as president of the Continental Congress from 24 May 1775 to 29 October 1777. As holder of this office, Hancock was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. John Hancock served the Continental Congress until he became Governor of Massachusetts in 1780. He presided over the State's Constitutional Convention held in that year. He also presided over the Massachusetts Convention of 1788 which ratified the Federal Constitution. With the exception of a term in the Confederate Congress, 1785-86, Hancock was Governor of Massachusetts until his death 8 October 1793. His body was interned in the Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston.
Image: John Hancock by 1765 by John Singleton Copley
Brooklyn College Library
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USAT Hancock moored pierside, circa 1898 to 1900 prior to being turned over to the Navy Department by the War Department. |
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USAT Hancock underway, circa 1898-1902, location unknown.
US Navy photo # NH 76117 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Photo from the William H. Topley Collection, courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1972. |
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USAT Hancock coaling at New York Navy Yard in 1902. |
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Battleship USS Indiana moored pierside at Navy Yard, New York., 2 February 1906 with USS Hancock moored aft
of Indiana and on the side of the pier.
(Note this photo is dated by the National Archives as 1906 but most likely it is 1902.) |
National Archives 179036410:
Local Identifier: 19-NN-1-16-27.
Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker. |
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USAT Hancock at anchor off Mare Island Navy Yard in 1902. Hancock was under repair at Mare Island from 9 November to
14 December 1902. Note tug Unadilla is alongside Hancock's port side.
US Navy photo # NH 76117 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Photo from the William H. Topley Collection, courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1972. |
Photo - Robert Hurst
Caption Darryl Baker |
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USAT Hancock in dry dock #1 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 December 1902.
US Navy photo |
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USAT Hancock left, and USAT Lawton at anchor off Mare Island Navy Yard, in December 1902.
US Navy photo |
Darryl Baker |
USS Hancock (Transport / AP-3)
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USS Hancock off Mare Island Navy Yard during the early 1900s.
US Navy photo # NH 84409 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976. |
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USS Hancock moored pierside at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., circa 1902.
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum |
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USS Hancock underway with the assistance of USS Active on the starboard side and likely Unadilla on the port side off Mare Island Navy Yard, date unknown.
US Navy photo # NH 84408 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Hancock moored pierside, circa 1905, location unknown |
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USS Hancock moored at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., circa May 1908, while serving as Receiving Ship there. Tug Narkeeta (Harbor Tug # 3) is passing by in the right foreground. Beyond Hancock is a smokestack of USS Baltimore (C-3), then laid up in reserve, the Executive Office, then the Marine Barracks. Note that Hancock's sides, amidships and aft, have been built up for receiving ship service.
US Navy photo # NH 93996 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Courtesy of M.S. Brainard, 1982. |
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USS Hancock as the receiving ship at the New York Navy Yard circa 1910, when the Connecticut-class battleship in the right distance received her two cage masts. The original image is printed on post card stock.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 105913 Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2008. |
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USS Hancock, housed over, while serving as receiving ship at Navy Yard New York, 10 May 1910. To the left of
Hancock are the battleships Alabama with
Ohio moored to her starboard.
US National Archives Identifier: 6126468. |
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USS Hancock at New York Navy Yard, 10 September 1913, during an inclining experiment. After being prepared for sea at New
York, the ship arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 16 September 1913 to be fitted out as a Marine Corps transport.
US National Archives, RG 19-A-1. Photo No.
Unknown. Courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Hancock docked at Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914. The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock. The reverse of the original card is inscribed, in ink: "The home of the First Advance Base Regt. U.S. Marine Corps".
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 106691 Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2009. |
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USS Hancock at anchor, 9 March 1914, location unknown..
US Navy photo # NH 104680 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. |
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USS Hancock "in action", circa 1914-1917. She appears to be firing salutes in this photo, which was copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, and printed on post card ("AZO") stock. Note the heavily retouched bow wave streaming away from the "thousand-ton" destroyer partially visible at right
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 106252 Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2009. |
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USS Hancock moored pierside at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA., circa 1915-1916.
US Navy photo # NH 82131 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Collection of LCDR. Abraham DeSomer, donated by Myles DeSomer, 1975. |
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USS Hancock in harbor with Marines crowding her decks, circa 1916.
US Navy photo # NH 104679 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Collection of Eugene Bennett, donated by his daughter, Jene B. Hart, September 1988. |
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USS Hancock anchored in harbor with troops crowding her decks, 2 July 1917, location unknown. |
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US Army soldiers aboard USS Hancock about to sail for France, 1917, location unknown.
International Film Service. Photographer unknown.
US National Archives and Records Administration, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division. ARC Identifier (National Archives Identifier) 533684. Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952 (ARC identifier: 494) Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled 1917 - 1918 (ARC identifier: 533461 |
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USS Hancock at anchor, circa Summer 1919, location unknown..
US Navy photo # NH 104681 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . Collection of Rear Admiral Bradford Bartlett, USN. |
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USS Hancock dressed with flags at Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA., 28 June 1919.
Note the men and women strolling on the waterfront, and the bus at left.
US Navy photo # NH 53624 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . |
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USS Hancock moored pierside, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USS Hancock probably moored at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in 1919.
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World War I era U.S. Navy sailor, Boatswains Mate 3rd class, wears a seldom seen U.S. Navy USS Hancock hat tally. |
Tommy Trampp |
USS Hancock (IX-12)
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USS Hancock (IX-12) at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, circa early 1920s, while serving as the Yard's Receiving Ship.
US Navy photo # NH 76117 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . |
Chuck Ulrich, coordinator/historian AP Transport Group and Robert Hurst |
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USS Hancock (IX-12) at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii Territory, 27 November 1923. She was then serving as the Yard's Receiving Ship. Dry Dock # One runs horizontally across the middle of the image.
US Navy photo # NH 104678 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command . |
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