This page features more views of ships steaming in heavy seas during the "Great White Fleet" World cruise.
For other photographs of "Great White Fleet" ships in heavy seas, see:
For additional images of ships taken during the World cruise, or probably taken at that time, see:
For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions. |
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Photo #: NH 105996 "Great White Fleet" World Cruise, December 1907 -- February 1909 USS Virginia (Battleship # 13) "taking one over her bow" during the fleet's cruise around the World. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer from on board USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19). Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105993 "Great White Fleet" World Cruise, December 1907 -- February 1909 Atlantic Fleet battleships steaming "in choppy seas" during their cruise around the World. Photographed from on board USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19) by Brown & Shaffer. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105995 "Great White Fleet" World Cruise, December 1907 -- February 1909 USS Virginia (Battleship # 13) "going into a heavy swell" during the fleet's cruise around the World. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105994 "Great White Fleet" World Cruise, December 1907 -- February 1909 An Atlantic Fleet battleship steaming through "rough weather" during the fleet's cruise around the World. This ship is a unit of the Virginia class (Battleship #s 13-17). Photographed by Brown & Shaffer from on board USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19). Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41636 USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17) Steaming through a typhoon in the South China Sea, 1908, during the "Great White Fleet"'s World Cruise. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 450 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105804 USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17) In a storm, probably during the World cruiser of the "Great White Fleet", circa 1908. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. Donation of Mrs. Lou McRae Hendricks, in memory of Joseph A. Hendricks, USN (Retired). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image size: 84KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105998 "Great White Fleet" World Cruise, December 1907 -- February 1909 USS Wisconsin (Battleship # 9) underway in heavy weather, during 1908-1909. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. Note: Though this photograph's inscription identifies this ship as USS Illinois (Battleship # 7) the configuration of masts and porthole spacing shows that she is actually Wisconsin, which joined the fleet after it arrived on the West Coast. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 53218 USS Wisconsin (Battleship # 9) In a China Sea typhoon during the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1908. Note: Though the photograph's inscription identifies this ship as USS Illinois (Battleship # 7), the configuration of her masts shows that she is actually Wisconsin. Courtesy of DOnald M. McPherson, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105999 USS Georgia (Battleship # 15) Taking water over her fore deck while running a speed trial in mid-1908, following the West Coast overhaul that preceded the "Great White Fleet"'s voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 106059 USS Georgia (Battleship # 15) Takes water over the bow while steaming through a Pacific Ocean storm in mid-1908, during the "Great White Fleet"'s voyage around the World. Photographed by Brown & Shaffer. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 106060 USS Georgia (Battleship # 15) Ship's fore deck awash as she steams through rough seas, during the "Great White Fleet"'s 1907-1909 voyage around the World. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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For other photographs of "Great White Fleet" ships in heavy seas, see:
For additional images of ships taken during the World cruise, or probably taken at that time, see:
For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions. |
Page made 1 September 2008