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Photo # 19-N-60-4-5:  USS Rhode Island in the Panama Canal, 1 August 1919

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USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17, later BB-17), 1906-1923 -- Overall Views taken in 1917-1923


This page features all the overall views we have showing USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17, later BB-17) as she was during and after World War I.

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 #: NH 101192

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    At the Boston Navy Yard, painted in an experimental camouflage scheme, in 1917-18.

    Courtesy of the Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown Navy Yard.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105810

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    In harbor (probably in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia), circa Autumn 1918.

    Collection of Arthur J. Rozett.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105660

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, with returning troops from Europe, 19 May 1919.
    Panoramic photograph by Pyle Photo Company, Waltham, Massachusetts.

    Courtesy of Commander Michael R. Scherr, USN (Retired), 2008, from the collection of his grandfather, Arthur W. Scherr. He had served with the 107th Field Signal Battalion, 32nd Division, during World War I and returned to the United States on USS Rhode Island.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 100KB; 1200 x 415 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50023

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    At Boston, Massachusetts, 21 May 1919.
    Panoramic photograph, taken by J.C. Crosby, Naval Photographer, # 11 Portland Street, Boston.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Crosby Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 1200 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44369

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Underway in Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, 1 August 1919.
    Note that all of her six-inch broadside guns have been removed.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 75723

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    Steaming through Gatun Lake during the passage of the Pacific Fleet through the Panama Canal, 1 August 1919.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Collection of Admiral William V. Pratt.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105668-KN (color)

    USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17)

    Underway in Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, 1 August 1919.
    Color-tinted postcard published by I.L. Maduro, Jr., 34-46 Cathedral Square, Panama City, Panama. It is overprinted by the Knights of Columbus' Committee on War Activities. See Photo # NH 105668-A-KN for a view of the reverse of this card, and Photo # NH 75723 for a black and white version (of generally better image quality) of this photograph.

    Collection of Francis Holmes Hallett. Donated by his daughters, Barbara H. Beaupre and Virginia H. Ericson, 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105808

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    In the Gaillard Cut, opposite Culebra, looking north, while transiting the Panama Canal in July 1919.
    The original halftone image is included in the booklet "The New Pacific Fleet Through the Panama Canal, July 1919, published by the Panama Pictorial Company, Newark, New Jersey.

    Collection of Commander Haines H. Lippincott, USN (Chaplain Corps).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105809

    USS Rhode Island
    (Battleship # 17)

    In the Lower West Chamber, Miraflores Locks, looking south, while transiting the Panama Canal in July 1919.
    The original halftone image is included in the booklet "The New Pacific Fleet Through the Panama Canal, July 1919, published by the Panama Pictorial Company, Newark, New Jersey.

    Collection of Commander Haines H. Lippincott, USN (Chaplain Corps).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 515 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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