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Photo # 80-G-470275:  Third Fleet warships en route to the Philippines, circa January 1945.  Photographed by LCdr. Charles Fenno Jacobs Online Library of Selected Images --
Picture of the Month Gallery for 2005

This page features all images used in 2005 as the Online Library's "Picture of the Month".

For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery

For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery, 2004; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2003; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2002; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2001; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2000; Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998

To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


December 2005 Picture of the Month:


Crewmen in the engine room of USS Siboney, December 1918. Photographed by John G. Krieger.


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November 2005 Picture of the Month:


"A Fast Convoy": The destroyer Allen escorting the transport Leviathan in the War Zone, 1918. Oil painting by Burnell Poole.


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October 2005 Picture of the Month:


Flag at half-mast on the salvaged submarine S-4, in honor of crew members who lost their lives when she was sunk on 17 December 1927. Photographed in March 1928, after she had been salvaged.


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September 2005 Picture of the Month:


Gunner's Mate 2nd Class David J. Lohr with two friends, circa 1918-1920.


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August 2005 Picture of the Month:


Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt with faculty and class members at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1897.


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July 2005 Picture of the Month:


View on deck of USS L-3, while she was underway off Berehaven, Ireland, 1918.


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June 2005 Picture of the Month:


Gun crew in action on board USS Noma, circa 1917-1918.


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May 2005 Picture of the Month:


Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding, USN, (1797-1878). Photographed circa 1864-1865, while he was Commandant of the New York Navy Yard.


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April 2005 Picture of the Month:


USS Stephen Potter and other Third Fleet warships en route to the Philippines, circa January 1945.


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March 2005 Picture of the Month:


USS R-14 under 'full sail' in May 1921, after losing power while searching for the lost tug Conestoga.


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February 2005 Picture of the Month:


Officers and Crews of the 22nd Destroyer Division, on board their ships at San Diego, California, 10 January 1920. Panoramic photograph taken by O.A. Tunnell.


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January 2005 Picture of the Month:


USS Castine among the breakers off Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, while escaping from the tsunami that wrecked USS Memphis, 29 August 1916.


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For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see:

  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2004;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2003;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2002;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2001;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2000;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998


    For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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