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

USS Utah (BB-31) in 1917-25


This page features all our overall views of USS Utah during and after the First World War, up to her late 1925 modernization.

For links to more pictures of USS Utah, see:

  • USS Utah (Battleship # 31, BB-31, later AG-16).


    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 63579

    USS Utah (BB-31)


    Photographed during World War I, with camouflage patterns painted on her hull and triangular baffles attached to her masts. Both were intended to confuse enemy range finders.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 63578

    USS Utah (BB-31)


    Working with a "kite" observation balloon, in Bantry Bay, near Berehaven, Ireland, circa September-November 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44256

    USS Utah (BB-31)


    In New York Harbor, 27 December 1918, after her return from European waters.
    Note that two 5" guns have been removed from her starboard midships battery, probably for wartime use on merchant ships.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 43172

    USS Utah (BB-31)


    At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa January 1920.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92005

    USS Utah (BB-31)


    Photographed in March 1921 by C.P. Rottman.

    Collection of Joseph A. Hendricks.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73828

    USS Utah (BB-31)


    In the Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal, 15 February 1923.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     

    For links to more pictures of USS Utah, see:

  • USS Utah (Battleship # 31, BB-31, later AG-16).


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


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    Page made 9 November 1998
    Content and coding updated 23 January 2001