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Photo # 19-N-62-2-1:  USS Idaho off New York City, Oct. 1912

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Idaho (Battleship # 24), 1908-1914

USS Idaho, a 13,000-ton Mississippi class battleship built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in April 1908. Following operations in the Caribbean area and a period of shipyard work, she took part in the February 1909 naval review at Hampton Roads, Virginia, celebrating the "Great White Fleet"'s return home from its World cruise. Over the next five years, Idaho served with the Atlantic Fleet along the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean, also participating in the naval reviews that were at that time frequent events at New York City. She also made a voyage to England and France in late 1910 and cruised on the Mississippi River in 1911.

After several months out of commission, Idaho returned to service in May 1914 for a midshipmen's training cruise to the Mediterranean. On 17 July she arrived at Villefranche, France, and transferred her crew to the battleship Maine. Decommissioned on 30 July 1914, USS Idaho was sold to Greece. Renamed Lemnos, she was a unit of the Greek Navy until April 1941. By that time reduced to a hulk, the old ship was sunk by German air attack at Salamis.

This page features selected views of USS Idaho (Battleship # 24).

For views of this ship during her time in the Greek Navy, see:

  • Lemnos (Greek Battleship, 1914-1941).

    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 60504

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    Photographed on 14 September 1908, refitted with a "cage" mainmast but still wearing "white & buff" paint.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 74260

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    In the Hudson River off Fort Lee, New York, 1909.
    Photographed by William H. Rau.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-14908

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    Photographed in 1909.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 19-N-4-1-20

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    Photographed on 25 July 1909.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 580 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 19-N-62-2-1

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    Dressed with flags during the Naval Review off New York City, October 1912.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 71046

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    Underway in 1912.
    Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-4-1-13

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24)

    Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1906.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 86366

    USS Idaho
    (Battleship # 24) and
    USS Mississippi (Battleship # 23)

    Fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa late 1907 or early 1908. Mississippi, commissioned in February 1908, is presumably the more complete ship, in the center of the photograph.

    Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1977.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     

    For views of Idaho during her time in the Greek Navy, see:

  • Lemnos (Greek Battleship, 1914-1941).


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


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