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Photo # 19-N-02-22-16:  USS Rhode Island underway off New York City, circa 1909

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USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17), 1906-1923 -- Overall Views as modified in 1909, with One "Cage" Mast


This page features all the overall views we have showing USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17) as she was following initial modernization in 1909, when a "cage" foremast replaced her original military foremast.

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-2-22-15

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    At the New York Navy Yard, 8 July 1909.
    Note her anchors, and her newly-installed "cage" foremast.

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

    Online Image: 99KB; 720 x 925 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 19-N-2-22-16

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Underway off New York City, with a tug steaming alongside, circa 1909.
    Note that she has been refitted with a "cage" foremast, but still has her military mainmast.

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

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 91472

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    In the Hudson River, off the Palisades opposite New York City during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 25 September -- 9 October 1909.
    The original image was printed on postcard stock.

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1980.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101505

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    At anchor during the last half of 1909, after she had been fitted with a "cage"foremast.
    Photographed by Brown & Shaffer.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 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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