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Photo # NH 69510:  USS Birmingham leads destroyers out of a West Coast harbor, circa 1919-1922

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USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2, later CL-2), 1908-1930 -- Part II


This page features additional views related to USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2, later CL-2).

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2, later CL-2), 1908-1930.


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

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    Photo #: NH 1690

    Repatriation of USS Maine victims, 1912


    The flag-draped caskets of the victims of the USS Maine explosion are brought ashore at the Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia, from USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), 23 March 1912.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 99853

    U.S. Navy Aircraft C-5
    (Curtiss F-Type flying boat)

    Resting on the water, circa 1914.
    USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), flagship of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, is in the right distance, with the Flotilla's tender, USS Dixie, beyond. Several of the Flotilla's destroyers are also present.
    Location may be Pensacola, Florida, which was visited by the Flotilla in April 1914, shortly before Birmingham took two aircraft to Tampico, Mexico.
    This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) crewmember, and she may be among the three-stack destroyers visible.
    Though this aircraft was redesignated AB-5 in March 1914, "USN C-5" is clearly marked on its rudder.

    Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50090

    German Submarine U-53


    At Newport, Rhode Island, on 7 October 1916. She subsequently attacked Allied shipping off the U.S. East Coast.
    USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) is in the right distance.
    Note tall radio masts and German Navy flags on the submarine, and the interesting small boat tied up alongside.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42528

    USS Birmingham
    (Scout Cruiser # 2, later CL-2), center foreground

    At San Pedro, California, circa 1919-1921, with a group of destroyers. Among the latter are USS Crosby (Destroyer # 164, later DD-164), at right, and USS Wickes (Destroyer # 75, later DD-75), which is the outboard ship in the nest immediately ahead of Crosby.
    Note the rail lines in the foreground, with many passenger cars on the tracks.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 69510

    USS Birmingham (CL-2)


    Leading destroyers out of a West Coast harbor (probably San Diego), circa 1919-1922. The ships directly behind her are USS Twiggs (DD-127) and USS Chauncey (DD-296).

    Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 86082-B

    "Combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in Panama Bay, Jan. 21st 1921"


    Middle section (of three) of a panoramic photograph taken by M.C. Mayberry, of Mayberry and Smith, Shreveport, Louisiana. Other views in the series are Photo #s: NH 86082-A and NH 86082-C.
    Among the ships present in this image are (from left to right): USS Stoddert (DD-302), USS Melville (AD-2), USS Texas (BB-35), USS Partridge (AM-16), USS Birmingham (CL-2), USS Arkansas (BB-33), USS Idaho (BB-42), USS Mississippi (BB-41), USS Wyoming (BB-32), USS New York (BB-34), USS New Mexico (BB-40) and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38).

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, D.H. Criswell Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 340 pixels

     

    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2, later CL-2), 1908-1930.


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


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    Page made 28 June 2003
    New image added 31 December 2004