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Photo # NH 60230:  USS Georgia. Photographed circa 1912

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

USS Georgia, a 14,948-ton Virginia class battleship built at Bath, Maine, was commissioned in September 1906. She soon became a unit of the Atlantic Fleet, participating in routine operations and, in June 1907, in the Jamestown Exposition's naval review. The following month, while engaged in gunnery exercises, she suffered a turret accident that took the lives of ten of her crew. In December 1907, Georgia left Hampton Roads, Virginia, with other Atlantic Fleet battleships to begin the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet". She visited ports in the West Indies, South America, Mexico, the U.S. west coast, the western Pacific, Asia and the Mediterranean before returning to Hampton Roads in February 1909.

Georgia was updated after this voyage, receiving many improvements, including "cage" masts in place of her original "military" models. Her normal Atlantic Fleet activities were punctuated by a trans-Atlantic trip to Europe in 1910-11, a Naval Academy training cruise in mid-1913 and intervention operations in troubled Mexico and Haiti in 1914. While out of commission in 1916-17, Georgia served as receiving ship at Boston, Massachusetts.

Recommissioned in April 1917, Georgia was employed on training duties during most of the First World War, shifting to convoy escort missions in September 1918. Late in the year, she began six months' of transport service, bringing almost 6000 U.S. servicemen home from France in five voyages. In July 1919, the battleship transited the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. She was placed out of commission at Mare Island, California, in June 1920. Receiving the hull number BB-15 later in that month, Georgia remained inactive until November 1923, when she was sold for scrapping.

This page features, and provides links to, views concerning USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15) -- Part II.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 53720

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Making 17.707 knots on Run # 9 of her trials, 13 June 1906.
    Note that her six-inch broadside guns have not yet been installed.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73911

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Photographed by C.E. Waterman, 1907.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 900 x 325 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53722

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Off Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 June 1909, after modernization with "cage" masts.
    Photographed by William H. Rau.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60230

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Photographed circa 1912, probably in New York harbor.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53723

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Dressed with flags and with crew members manning the rails, during the Naval Review in New York Harbor, October 1912.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67665

    USS Georgia
    (Battleship # 15)

    Photographed circa 1919.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45052

    Pacific Fleet Battleships


    Tied up at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in the Spring of 1920.
    Ships are (from left-center foreground to right-center distance):
    USS Georgia (Battleship # 15);
    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17);
    USS Vermont (Battleship # 20) and
    USS Nebraska (Battleship # 14).

    Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1932.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     


    For more images related to this ship, see:

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