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Photo # NH 100921:  Refugees on board USS Tennessee at Jaffa, Palestine, circa late 1914 or early 1915.

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), 1906-1916,
Renamed Memphis in 1916 --
On Board and Close-up Views, taken circa 1906-1911


This page features all the views we have taken on board USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), or showing her only partially, or related to her activities, during her final five years of service.

For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), 1906-1916. Renamed Memphis in 1916.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 89079

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Registering World War I refugees as they come on board at Jaffa, Palestine, circa February 1915.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100921

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Refugees on board the ship at Jaffa, Palestine, circa late 1914 or early 1915.

    Collection of Earl P. Crandall.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 440 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 91707

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    World War I refugees from Jaffa, Palestine, leaving the ship at Alexandria, Egypt, 14 February 1915.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), Retired.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100922

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Crew members carrying stores onto the ship's boat deck, probably at Alexandria, Egypt, circa late 1914 or early 1915.
    Ship alongside (at right) may be USS Vulcan (Collier # 5).

    Collection of Earl P. Crandall.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 445 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100924

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Mail for the ship on the beach of a Middle Eastern port, circa late 1914 or early 1915. Location may be Beirut, Turkey (Lebanon), or Alexandria, Egypt.
    A Turkish or Egyptian Sailor is standing beside the mail bags.

    Collection of Earl P. Crandall.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100923

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Minstrel show on board, while the ship was at Beirut, Turkey (Lebanon), on Christmas, 25 December 1914.

    Collection of Earl P. Crandall.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85068

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Band concern on the ship's boat deck, while she was visiting Turkey, circa 1914.
    Note the potato locker in the left background.

    Collection of Paul F. Wangerin, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85067

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Crew members preparing their seabags for clothing inspection, circa 1914.

    Collection of Paul F. Wangerin, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99951

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Several crewmen pose on the ship's signal bridge, circa 1914-1915.
    Signalman 3rd Class Paul F. Wangerin is at right, marked "me".

    Collection of Paul F. Wangerin, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100925

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Group of crewmen equipped for landing force duty, possibly while the ship was serving in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, circa late 1914 or early 1915.
    Rifles are M1903 "Springfield" types.

    Collection of Earl P. Crandall.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100926

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Studio portrait of three crew members, circa 1914-1915.
    Someone has written "Greetings" above the man at left.

    Collection of Earl P. Crandall.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 43KB; 445 x 765 pixels

     


    The following photograph was PROBABLY taken on board USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10):

    Photo #: NH 101131

    "Gov. Party -- on S. American Trip"


    Crew members and dignitaries with cameras on the deck of a U.S. Navy warship, circa 1916.
    This is probably USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10) during her South American cruise of March-May 1916 with Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo and party. Lady in the center is identified on the original print as "Mrs. McAdoo". Yeoman with two cameras, second from right, is probably Francis Sargent.

    From the album of Francis Sargent; Courtesy of Commander John Condon, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     


    For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), 1906-1916. Renamed Memphis in 1916.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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