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Photo # NH 101072:  USS Vermont in heavy seas, circa 1907-09

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USS Vermont (Battleship # 20, later BB-20), 1907-1923

USS Vermont, a 16,000-ton Connecticut class battleship, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in March 1907, she spent most of the rest of that year on trials, "shake down" operations and fleet maneuvers. With other Atlantic Fleet battleships, she left Hampton Roads, Virginia, in December 1907 to begin the era's most important demonstration of Naval mobility, the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet". Over the next fifteen months, Vermont steamed around South America to the U.S. west coast, crossed the Pacific and Indian Oceans, transited the Suez Canal and returned to Hampton Roads via the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

Modernized after this trip, Vermont received two "cage" masts and other new features. After completion of this work in June 1909, she spent most of the following eight years taking part in fleet operations along the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean. In 1910-11 and again in 1913, the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit European ports. She also participated in the Vera Cruz intervention during April-October 1914 and supported U.S. Marines in Haiti in 1916-17.

During the U.S. involvement in the First World War that began in April 1917 and lasted until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, Vermont mainly served on training duties in Chesapeake Bay and off the Atlantic coast. In June and July 1918, she also performed a diplomatic mission, transporting the body of the late Chilean Ambassador to his homeland for burial. Starting in January 1919, Vermont made four trans-Atlantic round-trip voyages as a troop transport, bringing about 5000 U.S. servicemen back to the U.S. from France. In July 1919, she transited the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. After nearly a year of operations along the west coast, USS Vermont was decommissioned in June 1920. Though reclassified as BB-20 soon thereafter, she saw no further active service and was sold for scrapping in November 1923.

This page features selected views concerning USS Vermont (Battleship # 20, later BB-20).


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Photo #: 19-N-4-16-13

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Photographed on 20 August 1907.

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

Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 400 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-12828

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Photographed on 20 August 1907.

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

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 101072

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Underway in heavy seas, circa 1907-1909, possibly during the cruise around the World of the "Great White Fleet".

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 101502

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Photographed by Brown & Shaffer, during the last half of 1909.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 61787

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Photographed circa 1912.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67492

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Photographed circa 1918-19.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69497

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Photographed circa 1919-1920.

Courtesy of Joseph L. Aguillard, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 500 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 75724

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

In the upper west chamber, Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal with the Pacific Fleet, 26 July 1919.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 50392

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

In the middle west chamber, Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal to the Pacific on 26 July 1919.
Note awning spread over the battleship's foredeck.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 560 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-4-16-18

USS Vermont
(Battleship # 20)

Receiving her new "cage" masts and other alterations, probably at the Boston Navy Yard, circa March-June 1909.

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

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 560 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 101060

"Quarter Deck Seas"


View looking aft on the main deck of USS Vermont (Battleship # 20), while she was steaming in heavy seas during the Nineteen "teens".
Note man standing by the ladder leading to the quarterdeck whaleboat.
Photograph by N. Moser, New York.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 


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