US Warships from the Revolution to 1941

Battleships

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Maine (ex-ACR-1)
Type: Second Class Battleship (ex Armored Cruiser), 1895
Date: 25 January 1898
View: Starboad side, entering Havana
Photo ID: 111-SC-94543
Notes: Last photo of Maine; sunk 15 February 1898
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Texas
Type: Second Class Battleship, 1896
Date: circa 1900
View: Port bow
Photo ID: 19-N-6797

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Indiana (BB 1)
Type: Coast Defense Battleship
Date: circa 1900
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-6784

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Massachusetts (BB 2)
Type: Coast Defense Battleship
Date: June 1901
View: Starboard bow
Photo ID: 181-NYS-15-46

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Oregon (BB 3)
Type: Coast Defense Battleship
Date: 1898
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-6784
Notes: Oregon survived until 1956 as a hulk.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Iowa (BB 4)
Type: Battleship
Date: 1 September 1898
View: Port bow, entering drydock
Photo ID: 181-NYS-29-27

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Kearsarge (BB 5)
Type: Battleship
Date: 18 September 1899
View: Starboard bow
Photo ID: 181-NYS-15-4
Notes: Kearsarge survived until 1955 as a craneship.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Alabama (BB 8)
Type: Battleship
Date: 12 October 1912
View: Port bow
Photo ID: 19-N-13580
Notes: Post-modernization photo.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Ohio (BB 12)
Type: Battleship
Date: 12 June 1907
View: Port quarter, with Great White Fleet, in Hampton Roads
Photo ID: 19-N-12897
Notes: Presidential yacht Mayflower at left is reviewing the fleet.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Virginia (BB 13)
Type: Battleship
Date: 1908
View: Bow, with Great White Fleet, at San Francisco
Photo ID: 19-N-13360

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Nebraska (BB 14)
Type: Battleship
Date: 20 April 1918
View: Port bow, camoflaged for WWI, at Norfolk
Photo ID: 165-WW-335A-44
Notes: Post-modernization photo.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Georgia (BB 15)
Type: Battleship
Date: 19 June 1909
View: Port side
Photo ID: 19-N-14292
Notes: Post-modernization photo.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Rhode Island (BB 17)
Type: Battleship
Date: 2 May 1907
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-20-2213

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Connecticut (BB 18)
Type: Battleship
Date: 1908
View: Port quarter, with Great White Fleet, at Sydney
Photo ID: 80-AA-12864
Notes: Flagship of the Great White Fleet.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Minnesota (BB 22)
Type: Battleship
Date: 12 June 1907
View: Port bow, with Great White Fleet
Photo ID: 19-N-28294

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Delaware (BB 28)
Type: Dreadnought Battleship
Date: 1 January 1920
View: Starboard bow at Guantanamo Bay
Photo ID: 19-N-2792

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Florida (BB 30)
Type: Dreadnought Battleship
Date: 4 June 1927
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-41021
Notes: Post-modernization photo.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Arkansas (BB 33)
Type: Dreadnought Battleship
Date: 15 October 1912
View: Port side
Photo ID: 19-N-13581

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: New York (BB 34)
Type: Dreadnought Battleship
Date: August 1935
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 80-G-423350
Notes: Post-modernization photo.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Nevada (BB 36)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 1920
View: Port side, forward overhead
Photo ID: 80-CF-2045-1
Notes: Note aircraft platform on forward turret.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Oklahoma (BB 37)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 15 January 1916
View: Starboard bow
Photo ID: 19-N-5-28-18

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Pennsylvania (BB 38)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 23 August 1935
View: Starboard bow
Photo ID: 80-CF-2047-1
Notes: Post-modernization photo.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Arizona (BB 39)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 4 June 1927
View: Starboard bow
Photo ID: 19-N-11007

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Idaho (BB 42)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 4 June 1927
View: Starboard quarter
Photo ID: 19-N-11008

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: California (BB 44)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 11 October 1936
View: Starboard bow, overhead, passing under the incomplete Golden Gate Bridge
Photo ID: 80-CF-2055-8

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Maryland (BB 46)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 23 August 1935
View: Starboard quarter
Photo ID: 80-G-463249

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: West Virginia (BB 48)
Type: Superdreadnought Battleship
Date: 9 February 1939
View: Port bow, overhead
Photo ID: 80-G-466161

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Washington (BB 56)
Type: Treaty Battleship
Date: 29 May 1941
View: Port bow
Photo ID: 19-N-24147
Notes: WWII-era ship.

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