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Photo # NH 101472:  View on board USS Georgia, showing her after twelve-inch/eight-inch superposed gun turret, circa 1907-1908

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USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15), 1906-1923 -- Part II


This page features additional images related to USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15).

For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15), 1906-1923.


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

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    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.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 87KB; 440 x 765 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 164KB; 520 x 765 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     


    Note: This is a rather fuzzy image.


    For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15), 1906-1923.


    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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