Photo #: NH 95663
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Ship's officers and crewmen posed on her forecastle, forward
gun turret and superstructure, during the Jamestown Exposition,
1907.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photograph Collection, 1985.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 101469
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Ship's after "superposed" 12"/40 and 8"/45
gun turret, where an explosion in the 8" (upper) level on
15 July 1907 took the lives of ten crewmen.
The photograph was probably taken during the months following
the accident.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 101472
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
View looking forward from the stern, showing the ship's after
12"/40 and 8"/45 "superposed" gun turret
and her mainmast, circa 1907-08.
Note heavy coal smoke issuing from her stacks.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 101483
Straits of Magellan, Chile
U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships entering the straits en route
to the Pacific, circa 7-8 February 1908, during the World cruise
of the "Great White Fleet".
Photographed from the afterdeck of USS Georgia (Battleship
# 15). Note her quarterdeck whaleboat, on davits in left center,
and "dotter" gunnery practice aiming device at right.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 60219
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
View looking down from the foremast during coaling, at the Charleston
Navy Yard, South Carolina, circa 1919.
Note: Georgia's port 8"/45 gun turret and coal barges
alongside the battleship with crewmen bagging coal to be hoisted
on board.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 105417
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15))
Troops of the 32nd (Division ?) coming on board the ship at Brest,
France, for passage home to the United States, 1919. They are
disembarking from a steam lighter, which is either Nenette
or Rin Tin Tin.
The original image is printed on postcard ("AZO") stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106283
Ferry Lighter Nenette
Alongside USS Georgia (Battleship # 15) in Brest harbor, France, March 1919. She is transferring troops to the battleship for passage home to the United States.
The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock. A hand-written note on its reverse states: "Soldiers coming on the Georgia, going back home! March 1919."
Note Nenette's bridge and covered pilothouse at left.
Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106282
Ferry Lighter Rin Tin Tin
In Brest harbor, France, approaching USS Georgia (Battleship
# 15) to transfer troops for transportation home to the United
States, circa January-March 1919.
The original image is printed on post card ("AZO")
stock. A hand-written note on its reverse states: "The soldiers
reach us in boats like this. We do not dock in Brest, but lay
in the harbor."
Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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