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Photo # NH 2891:  USS New Hampshire in the Hudson River, December 1918

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS New Hampshire (Battleship # 25, later BB-25), 1908-1923

USS New Hampshire, a 16,000-ton Connecticut class battleship built at Camden, New Jersey, was commissioned in March 1908. In June of that year she carried a Marine Corps' Expeditionary Regiment to Panama, then visited Quebec and ports in the northeastern U.S. New Hampshire spent most of her service career on routine activities off the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean area, but also took part in several special operations and made a number of voyages to Europe. In late 1910, after her appearance had been altered by the installation of a pair of "cage" masts, and again in 1911 she crossed the Atlantic to call on northern European ports. New Hampshire was active in protecting United States' interests in Mexico and the Dominican Republic during 1912-15, including participation in the Vera Cruz intervention in April-June 1914.

During World War I, New Hampshire was mainly engaged in training service along the U.S. coast, but performed convoy escort service during the last months of 1918. She was then employed as a transport, bringing troops home from France between December 1918 and June 1919. In mid-1920, the battleship carried U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen on a cruise through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and the west coast. In that year, when the Navy formally adopted hull numbers, she was designated BB-25. New Hampshire operated off Haiti later in the year and into 1921, then steamed to Sweden on a diplomatic mission. On that, her final operation, she also visited Germany and England. Placed out of commission in May 1921, USS New Hampshire was sold for scrapping in November 1923.

This page features selected views concerning USS New Hampshire (Battleship # 25).


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Photo #: NH 73979

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Running her standardization trial off Rockland, Maine, 19 December 1907.
Note that her 12-inch gun turrets have not yet been installed.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102972-KN (color)

USS New Hampshire (Battleship # 25)

Photographed circa 1908.
The original photograph is printed on postal card stock.
For a view of the card's reverse, see Photo # 102972-A-KN.

Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 485 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 76548

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

At anchor, circa 1909.

Courtesy of Colonel J. Willcox, USMC(Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-4-10-5

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Photographed on 29 July 1910.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 560 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 61217

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Photographed in harbor, circa 1910.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82129

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Underway, circa 1910.

Collection of Lieutenant Commander Abraham DeSomer, donated by Myles DeSomer, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 60574

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City, 1911.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 2891

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918.
Note wartime modifications, including removal of some of the seven-inch and three-inch broadside guns and fitting of blast deflection shields on the "cage" mast fire control positions.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-4-8-21

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

View of the ship's bow decoration, taken while the battleship was in drydock at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 6 January 1909.
Note giltwork on the eagle figurehead and associated decorations, stockless anchors in hause pipe, stocked anchor on billboard further aft, Sailors leaning on the bow bulwark, jack at half-mast, bell mounted in front of the ship's pilothouse, and barred portholes.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 600 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 84539

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Taking on coal from a barge moored alongside, at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1909. View looks aft from over the port forward 8"/45 gun turret.
Note boat crane, coal booms, hatches and bags, and 46-star U.S. ensign flying from New Hampshire's flagstaff.
USS Vestal is fitting out at right.

Courtesy of John B. Dowty, 12th Naval District Museum, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 73105

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Firing her 12"/45 main battery guns at the target ship San Marcos (ex-Texas) in Chesapeake Bay, March 1911.
Photographed by N.G. Moser.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 60213

USS New Hampshire
(Battleship # 25)

Coaling while moored alongside a U.S. Navy fleet collier, at Brest, France, in December 1918.
Ship in the left background is USS Albany. Next ship ahead of her is a U.S. Coast Guard cutter.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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