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Photo # 19-N-60-4-5:  USS Rhode Island at anchor, circa mid-1910

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USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17), 1906-1923 -- Overall Views as modified in 1910, with Two "Cage" Masts


This page features all the overall views we have showing USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17) as she was following full modernization in 1910, when a "cage" mainmast was fitted, giving her two of these distinctive 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-2-23-9

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    At the New York Navy Yard, 21 July 1910, shortly after she received her "cage" mainmast.

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

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 525 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 105669

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship underway in harbor, 1910.
    Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).

    Donation of David Shadell, 1987.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-2-23-10

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Anchored off New York City, 22 July 1910.
    Grant's Tomb is in the right-center distance.

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

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 19-N-60-4-5

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    At anchor, circa mid-1910, after she had been refitted with two "cage masts".
    Note gun aiming practice devices fitted to her turrets.

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

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 570 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 82128

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Underway, leading a column of battleships, circa 1912.

    Collection of Lieutenant Commander Abraham DeSomer, donated by Myles DeSomer, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101089

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Illuminated with electric lights for a festive occasion, circa 1913.
    Photographed by Sargent.

    From the album of Francis Sargent; Courtesy of Commander John Condon, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 38KB; 740 x 500 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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