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Photo # 19-N-20-22-12:  USS Rhode Island on 2 May 1907

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17), 1906-1923 --
Overall Views as Built, with Military Masts


This page features all the overall views we have showing USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17) as originally constructed, with two military masts.

For other photographs concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17, later BB-17), 1906-1923.


    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 #: 19-N-20-22-13

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Photographed on 2 May 1907.
    Note steam launch alongside and sailing boat (with sails raised) on her deck by the after superposed gun turret.

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

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 535 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 105661-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    Photographed circa 1906-1907.
    Color-tinted postcard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100443-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    At anchor off Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1906-1907.
    Color-tinted postcard, published by the Rhode Island News Company, Providence, R.I.

    Courtesy of Martin R. Copp, 1985.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101227-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    Anchored off Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1906-1907.
    Color-tinted postcard, published by the Rhode Island News Company, Providence, R.I.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 480 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105663-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    Anchored off Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1906-1907.
    Color-tinted postcard printed in Germany and published by the Hugh C. Leighton Company, Portland, Maine.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 470 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44651

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    In harbor, circa 1906-1908.
    The original image is on a glass lantern slide from the A.S. Murray Collection, purchased in 1963 from the Peale Museum of Baltimore, Maryland.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105662-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    At anchor, circa 1906-1907.
    Color-tinted postcard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105667-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    Fitting out at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, circa 1905. The ship fitting out in the background, at right, is probably USS New Jersey (Battleship # 16).
    Color-tinted postcard published by A.C. Bosselman & Co., New York, and printed in Germany.

    Collection of Colonel W.T. Bigger, USMC (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     


    The ship in the foreground of the following photograph is either USS Rhode Island or the very similar USS New Jersey (Battleship # 16):

    Photo #: NH 101466

    Atlantic Fleet Battleships


    Steaming in line abreast off Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1907.
    Ship nearest the camera is either USS New Jersey (BB-16) or USS Rhode Island (BB-17).

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     


    For other photographs concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17, later BB-17), 1906-1923.


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


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