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Photo # NH 60243:  Sailors and Marines posing on USS Virginia's after 'superposed' gun turret, circa 1910-14

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USS Virginia (Battleship # 13, later BB-13), 1906-1923 -- Part II


This page features more images related to USS Virginia (Battleship # 13, later BB-13).

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  • USS Virginia (Battleship # 13, later BB-13), 1906-1923.


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    Photo #: NH 60243

    USS Virginia
    (Battleship # 13)

    Sailors and Marines posing on the ship's after turret, circa 1910-14. Upper guns of this "superposed" turret are 8"/45s. The lower ones are 12"/40s.
    Note bugle held by the Marine in the lower center.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101077

    Atlantic Fleet Gunnery Practice, circa 1913


    Shells from USS Virginia (Battleship # 13) straddle a target raft, seen from USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17).
    Photographed by Sargent.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101078

    U.S. Navy Towing Target # 23


    After being hit by gunfire from USS Virginia (Battleship # 13) during Atlantic Fleet gunnery practice, circa 1913.
    Photographed by Sargent, probably from USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17).

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 61557

    USS Virginia
    (Battleship # 13) - foreground, and
    USS Georgia (Battleship # 15) - center background

    Leaving the Boston Navy Yard for Vera Cruz, 23 April 1914.
    USS Constitution is at left. Photographed by F.A. George.
    The inset in top center is a photo of Captain Robert E. Coontz, Georgia's Commanding Officer.

    Courtesy of Mrs. Littlefield MacArthur, 1956.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 365 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-12633

    USS Virginia (BB-13)


    Sinking after use as a bombing target, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 5 September 1923.

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

    Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 95886-KN (color)

    World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-1909

    Souvenir scarf, depicting sixteen battleships of the fleet, and the flags of the World's nations, and listing the port's visited during the cruise.
    The battleships shown are: (top row, left to right) -- Vermont, Minnesota, Kansas and Connecticut;
    (upper middle row, left to right) -- Rhode Island, New Jersey, Nebraska and Georgia;
    (lower middle row, left to right) -- Missouri, Ohio, Virginia and Louisiana;
    (bottom row, left to right) -- Kentucky, Kearsarge, Illinois and Wisconsin

    Donation of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Devlin, 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 416KB; 1200 x 1155 pixels

     


    For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Virginia (Battleship # 13, later BB-13), 1906-1923.


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


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