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Photo # NH 73127:  Forward eight-inch guns of USS Maryland, while she was in Manila Bay, circa 1906.

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

USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8), 1905-1930 --
On Board and Close Up Views taken in 1905-1909


This page features all the views we have taken on board and close to USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8) during 1905-1909.

For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8, later CA-8), 1905-1930. Renamed Frederick in November 1916 -- Selected Views.


    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 73127

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    View looking aft at her forward eight-inch gun turret and bridge, while she was steaming on the target range in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, circa 1906.
    Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member, who presented it to F.M. Deats with the following poem inscribed on its reverse:
    "I hold the thunder, flame is my breath
    Monstrous I swim, swollen with death
    All man's achievements centered in me
    At the crown of his knowledge, I blast the sea"

    Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73128

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Breech of one of the ship's four 8"/40 guns, circa 1906.
    Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member, who inscribed on its reverse: "T'was on this gun I qualified as Heavy Gun Pointer 1st Class".
    This gun is marked, at the top of the breech face:
    "U.S. Naval Gun Factory W.N.Y."
    "8 in. Gun Mark V No. 98"

    Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73129

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Breech end of one of the ship's fourteen 6"/50 broadside guns and the interior of its casemate, circa 1906.
    Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member.
    Note the shell rack in the right background, and the wooden pail on deck.

    Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73130

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Shell rack in the casemate of one of the ship's fourteen 6"/50 broadside guns, circa 1906.
    Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member.
    Note the gun cleaning tool on the bulkhead, above the shells, the wooden pail on deck, and the steam heat radiator at right.

    Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50378

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Officers and crew members pose with a record target shot by the ship's six-inch gun battery, in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, 2 February 1907.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 64810

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Signalmen at work, circa 1908.
    Among the activities seen are reading and recording signals (left), semaphore signalling (left center) and hoisting signal flags.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     


    For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8, later CA-8), 1905-1930. Renamed Frederick in November 1916 -- Selected Views.


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


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