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Photo # NH 59575:  USS Louisiana, photographed in 1906

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19, later BB-19), 1906-1923

USS Louisiana, a 16,000-ton Connecticut class battleship built at Newport News, Virginia, was commissioned in June 1906. During that year and the next, she was active in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean areas, including making a diplomatic visit to Havana, Cuba, in September 1906 and carrying President Theodore Roosevelt to Panama later in that year. From December 1907 until February 1909, Louisiana steamed around the World with the other battleships of the "Great White Fleet". During this cruise, she called on ports in Trinidad, South America, Mexico, the U.S. west coast, Hawaii, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Ceylon, and the Mediterranean.

Overhauled following her return to the United States, Louisiana was fitted with the then-new "cage" masts. For the next six years, she primarily operated off the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean area, participating in Atlantic Fleet battleship exercises. She also made two cruises to European waters in late 1910 and in mid-1911. In April-August 1914, Louisiana was one of many U.S. warships that took part in the occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico. From late 1915 until the the spring of 1917, she was employed on training duties when not in reserve.

Louisiana's World War I service, from April 1917 until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, mainly consisted of gunnery and engineering training operations along the U.S. Atlantic coast and undertook convoy escort missions during the conflict's last two months. From December 1918 until mid-1919 she served as a troop transport, bringing servicemen back to the United States from Europe. USS Louisiana was reclassified BB-20 in July 1920 and decommissioned in the following October. After three years of inactivity, she was sold for scrapping in November 1923.

This page features, and provides links to, selected views concerning USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19, later BB-19).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19, later BB-19) -- 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 59575

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    Photographed in 1906 by Enrique Muller.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63136

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    Off Coronado, California, on 14 April 1908, during the "Great White Fleet's" visit to the west coast.
    Note lighted ship's name displayed on the bridge.

    Courtesy of the Historical Collection, Union Title Insurance Company, San Diego, California.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101503

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    At anchor during the last half of 1909, after she had been fitted with "cage" masts.
    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17) is in the left distance, beyond Louisiana's forward gun turret.
    Photographed by Brown & Shaffer.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51421

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    Underway, circa 1910-14.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51419

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    Off New York City during the Fleet Review, 3 October 1911.
    Photographed by the New York Navy Yard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51418

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    Photographed in harbor, shortly before World War I.
    Note blast deflector fitted to her foremast top.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63337

    Battleships of the 4th Division, Atlantic Fleet


    Maneuvering in line abreast off the Atlantic coast, 1917, as seen from the masthead of USS Minnesota (Battleship # 22), the Division flagship.
    Ships seen are (from front to rear):
    USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19);
    USS Kansas (Battleship # 21); and
    USS New Hampshire (Battleship # 25).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82654

    USS Louisiana
    (Battleship # 19)

    Arrives at New York City with a load of troops from France, 1919. The tug Excelsior (closest to camera) is among those assisting her into her berth.
    Photo printed on a stereograph card, published by the Keystone View Company.
    See Photo # NH 82654 (extended caption) for the text printed on the original stereograph card's reverse side, concerning World War I trans-Atlantic logistics accomplishments.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1975

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 625 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 82654-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 62KB; 675 x 360 pixels

     


    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19, later BB-19) -- Part II.


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


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    Page made 6 June 2001
    New images added and page divided 31 May 2008