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Photo # NH 101494:  Great White Fleet battleships nearing Port Said, Egypt in January 1909

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1900s

World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909
-- Visit to Port Said, Egypt, January 1909


This page features views concerning the "Great White Fleet"'s visit to Port Said, Egypt in January 1909.

For more images related to this subject, see:

  • -- Suez Canal Transit and Visit to Egypt, January 1909.

    For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


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

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

    Photo #: NH 101494

    The "Great White Fleet" transits the Suez Canal, January 1909


    Battleships of the fleet nearing Port Said, Egypt, circa 5-6 January 1909, as they approached the Mediterranean Sea during the final months of their cruise around the World.
    USS Ohio (Battleship # 12) is in the right center.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106128

    "Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909


    Local workers coaling one of the Fleet's battleships at Port Said, Egypt, following her January 1909 Suez Canal transit.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     


    For more images related to this subject, see:

  • -- Suez Canal Transit and Visit to Egypt, January 1909.

    For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


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


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