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Photo # NH 553:  USS Connecticut running trials, 1906

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USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18, later BB-18), 1906-1923

USS Connecticut, lead ship of a class of six 16,000-ton battleships, was built at the New York Navy Yard. Commissioned in September 1906, she became flagship of the Atlantic Fleet in April 1907 and retained that role for some five years. During the rest of 1907, Connecticut took part in the Jamestown Tri-Centennial celebration and participated in fleet exercises. In December, she led the Atlantic Fleet's battleships out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, beginning a historic cruise around the World that lasted until February 1909.

Upon her return to the United States, Connecticut was modernized, receiving new "cage" masts, grey paint and numerous other alterations. Thereafter, she mainly conducted routine operations in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. However, in 1910-11 and in 1913 the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit European waters. During World War I, Connecticut was employed as a training ship off the U.S. east coast and in the Chesapeake Bay. In the first half of 1919, she served as a transport, making four trans-Atlantic voyages to bring home veterans from France.

In 1920, the year she was given the hull number BB-18, Connecticut made a training cruise through the Panama Canal to the west coast. She made another training voyage in 1921, this time to Europe, then transfered to the Pacific Fleet. USS Connecticut decommissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in March 1923 and was sold for scrapping in November of that year.

This page features, and provides links to, views concerning USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18, later BB-18).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18, later BB-18) -- Part II.


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

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    Photo #: NH 553

    USS Connecticut (BB-18)


    Running speed trials off the Maine coast, 1906.
    Photographed by Enrique Muller. Note sailors crowding the rails, watching the photographer's boat, which is about to be swamped by the battleship's bow wave.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73318

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Probably in San Diego harbor, California, in 1908.
    Photographed by Fred W. Kelsey.

    Courtesy of R.W. Cunningham, 1971.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61208

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Underway, circa 1909-14.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2325

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Dressed with flags while at anchor in the Hudson River, off New York City, prior to World War I. The occasion may be the Fleet Review of October 1911.
    Steam launch at left is from USS Washington (Armored Cruiser # 11).

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55339

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Photographed about 1920.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55335

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    The National Ensign is raised during commissioning ceremonies on the new battleship's after deck, at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 29 September 1906.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100349

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Leading the Atlantic Fleet's battleships out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, probably at the start of the "Great White Fleet" cruise around the World in December 1907.
    Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood.

    Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 635 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100349-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 60KB; 675 x 350 pixels

     


    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18, later BB-18) -- Part II.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


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


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    New images added and page divided 27 February 2010