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Photo # NH 60991:  USS Connecticut crew members pose with their target, following gunnery practice in 1908

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-- EVENTS -- The 1900s

World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Shipboard Activities -- Gunnery


This page features, and provides links to, views of shipboard gunnery activities during, or at the time of, the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.
Note:
Some photographs seen on this page are not absolutely confirmed as having been taken during the World cruise, but were certainly taken at approximately that time.

For pictures of other types of "Great White Fleet" shipboard activities, see:

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet" -- Shipboard Activities.

    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 106061

    USS Ohio
    (Battleship # 12)

    12"/40 guns of the ship's forward turret, photographed circa 1907-1908.
    This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106062

    12"/40 guns


    Of the after turret of a Maine class battleship, photographed as the ship turned to port on a target range, circa 1907-1908.
    This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.
    This ship may be USS Ohio (Battleship # 12), as it comes from a series of photographs that include several directly identified as having been taken on her.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101467

    USS Ohio
    (Battleship # 12)

    12"/40 guns of the ship's forward gun turret, photographed circa 1907-1908.
    Note Sailors strolling on deck; bell mounted on the pilothouse face; and 3-pounder guns mounted on the superstructure.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50484

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Crew members atop an eight-inch gun turret, after a target practice run in Manila Bay, November 1908.

    Collection of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, Jr., 1928.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 540 x 415 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106064

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    "Prize winning gun crew" pose on the ship's after eight-inch/twelve inch turret, superposed during the "Great White Fleet"'s cruise around the World, 1908.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106063

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Officers and men of the ship's after turret crew pose with their target, circa 1907-1908. The original picture inscription reads "Cause and Effect".
    This photo may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet"'s cruise around the World.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60991

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Crewmen of one of the ship's seven-inch broadside guns pose with their target, following gunnery practice during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise, 1908.

    Collection of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, Jr., USN, 1928.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60992

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Crew members of one of the ship's seven-inch broadside guns pose with their target, following gunnery practice during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise, 1908.
    This appears to be the same target as seen in Photo # NH 60991, but with a different group of men.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46030

    USS Minnesota
    (Battleship # 22)

    An officer poses in the breech of one of the after turret's 12"/45 guns, 1908.

    Courtesy of Chaplain Evans, 1935.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 545 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106066

    Crew of a 6"/50 Broadside Gun


    In action in the upper deck battery of a Maine class battleship, circa 1907-1908.
    This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.
    The ship may be USS Ohio (Battleship # 12), as it comes from a series of photographs that include several directly identified as having been taken on her.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106067

    Six-inch Gun Loading Practice Machine


    Battleship crew members drilling with a deck-mounted loading machine while others look on, circa 1907-1908.
    This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     


    For pictures of other types of "Great White Fleet" shipboard activities, see:

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet" -- Shipboard Activities.

    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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