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Photo # NH 105997:  USS Minnesota pitching in heavy seas, 1908

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

World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Ships Steaming in Heavy Weather


This page features views of ships steaming in heavy seas during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.

For more photographs of "Great White Fleet" ships in heavy seas, see:

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet" -- Ships Steaming in Heavy Weather (Part II).

    For additional images of ships taken during the World cruise, or probably taken at that time, see:

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet" -- Ships.

    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 101072

    USS Vermont
    (Battleship # 20)

    Underway in heavy seas, circa 1907-1909, possibly during the cruise around the World of the "Great White Fleet".

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105997

    "Great White Fleet" World Cruise
    ,
    December 1907 -- February 1909

    USS Minnesota (Battleship # 22) pitching in heavy seas, while bringing fleet mail from Honolulu, circa July 1908.
    Photographed by Brown & Shaffer.
    Note: The caption of a very similar photograph (see Photo # NH 91751 identifies the time and location as October 1908, in the waters between the Philippines and Japan.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 91751

    USS Minnesota
    (Battleship # 22)

    Pitches her forefoot out of the water during a storm, while steaming from the Philippines to Yokohama, Japan, in October 1908, during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.

    Courtesy of Rear Admiral Fred W. Connor.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82771

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)
    or
    USS Minnesota (Battleship # 22)

    Pitching her forefoot out of the sea while steaming in heavy weather during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise, circa 1908-1909.

    Courtesy of Captain Ralph C. McCoy, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 455 pixels

    Note:
    The original photograph identified this ship as USS Kansas (Battleship # 21), which it is not. Note the bow decoration and other details, which differentiate Kansas from Louisiana and Minnesota.

     
    Photo #: NH 45481

    USS New Jersey
    (Battleship # 16)

    In a China Sea typhoon, during the "Great White Fleet"'s cruise around the World, 1908.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105992

    "Great White Fleet" World Cruise
    ,
    December 1907 -- February 1909

    Atlantic Fleet battleships experience "A little heavy weather" during their cruise around the World.
    The ships seen are all units of the Virginia class (Battleship #s 13-17).

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105991

    "Great White Fleet" World Cruise
    ,
    December 1907 -- February 1909

    Atlantic Fleet battleships "pitch and roll some" during their cruise around the World.
    The ships seen are all units of the Virginia class (Battleship #s 13-17).

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106069

    "Physical culture"


    Sailors perform calisthenics on a battleship's quarterdeck, during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise, circa 1907-1909.
    In the background, a Virginia class battleship is pitching into a swell. She is either Nebraska (Battleship # 14), New Jersey (Battleship # 16) or Rhode Island (Battleship # 17).

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     


    For more photographs of "Great White Fleet" ships in heavy seas, see:

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet" -- Ships Steaming in Heavy Weather (Part II).

    For additional images of ships taken during the World cruise, or probably taken at that time, see:

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet" -- Ships.

    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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