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Photo # NH 100303:  Crewmen pose by USS Iowa's forward gun turret, 1898

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USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), 1897-1923 -- Views On Board Ship


This page features views taken on board USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), showing crew groups and other routine scenes during her service as a battleship.

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 87

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Sailors and Marines of the ship's crew posed in front of her forward 12"/35 gun turret, circa August 1898.
    Photographed by William H. Rau.
    Note that Iowa has been partially repainted from wartime grey. Also note the ship's bell below the pilothouse.
    USS Brooklyn (Armored Cruiser # 3) is in the right distance.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82636

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Ship's Marines drilling on deck with rifles and bayonets, 1898.
    The original photograph was printed on a stereograph card, copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York.

    Courtesy of Captain George Atkins, USNR (DC), 1975

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 134KB; 630 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 82636-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 89KB; 675 x 360 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100302

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Crewmen pose by the ship's forward 12"/35 gun turret, 1898.
    The original photograph was printed on a stereograph card, copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York.

    Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 176KB; 635 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100302-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 90KB; 675 x 360 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100303

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Crewmen pose by the ship's forward 12"/35 gun turret, 1898.
    The original photograph was printed on a stereograph card, copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York.

    Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 131KB; 630 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100303-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 90KB; 675 x 360 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 75671

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Crewmembers posed atop her after starboard 8"/35 gun turret, circa the early 1900s.
    Note that the inboard gun has its muzzle blown off, presumably the result of an accident.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53263

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Ship's officers posed on her foredeck, circa 1904 or 1905.
    Lieutenant Commander William S. Benson, the Executive Officer, is fifth from the left, in the front row.
    Seated just to the right of Benson, is probably Captain Benjamin F. Tilley, Iowa's Commanding Officer. If it is Tilley, the photo was taken in January-August 1905.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97948

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Ship's officers and crew pose on her foredeck, forward 12"/35 gun turret and superstructure, 1906.
    Most of the officers present (as numbered) are identified in Photo # NH 97948 (complete caption).

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95329

    USS Iowa
    (Battleship # 4)

    Member's of the ship's championship baseball team, circa 1907.

    Courtesy of Paul E. Lorms, 1984.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605 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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