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Photo # 19-N-1985:  USS Iowa underway, circa 1918

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), 1897-1923 -- Views taken circa 1910-1920


This page features selected views of USS Iowa (Battleship # 4) after she was refitted with a cage mainmast.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), 1897-1923. Later renamed Coast Battleship # 4.


    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 63501

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Probably photographed in New York Harbor, circa 1911.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53262-KN (color)

    USS Iowa (Battleship # 4)

    Photograph, taken circa 1912, reproduced in retouched and color-tinted form on a postal card.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53260

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Photographed during World War I, circa 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-1985

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Underway, circa 1918, during her World War I service.

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

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 53259

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Dressed with flags while off Baltimore, Maryland, during the post-World War I Naval Review, December 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53261

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    In the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, January 1919.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 74096

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    In the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa early 1919.
    She is flying a Rear Admiral's flag from her main mast peak.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     


    USS Iowa (Battleship # 4) is seen in the left background of the following view:

    Photo #: NH 52104

    Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


    Destroyers and other ships at the Yard in March 1919, awaiting decommissioning.
    Identifiable ships include:
    USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), at far left;
    USS Isabel (later PY-10), left center;
    USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8), foreground; and
    USS Perry (Destroyer # 11), inboard of Lawrence.
    Note Lawrence's after torpedo tube and pattern camouflage.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     

    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), 1897-1923. Later renamed Coast Battleship # 4.


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


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