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Photo # NH 92173:  USS West Virginia in a harbor, probably on the Pacific coast, circa 1916.

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USS West Virginia, later renamed Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5), 1905-1930 --
Views taken in 1911-1917


This page features all the views we have showing USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) (Named Huntington after November 1916) during 1911-1917, when she was fitted with a basket foremast and a military mainmast.

For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5, later CA-5), 1905-1930. Renamed Huntington in November 1916 -- Selected Views.


    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 44377

    Aviators Eugene Ely and Hugh Robinson


    Flying near a U.S. Navy armored cruiser in Elliott Bay, Washington, 1911.
    Photographed by Nowell & Rognon, Seattle, Washington.
    Probably taken on 20 July 1911, with Ely in the upper airplane and Robinson flying low in the floatplane.
    The cruiser is probably USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5), flagship of the Pacific Fleet.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1583

    Navy Airplane A-2
    (Curtiss design & manufacture)

    During a training flight at Coronado, California, winter of 1912.
    USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) is in the background.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92173

    USS West Virginia
    (Armored Cruiser # 5)

    In a harbor, probably on the Pacific Coast, circa 1916.
    This ship was renamed Huntington in November of that year.
    The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock.

    Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 83128

    USS West Virginia
    (Armored Cruiser # 5)

    Pitching her forefoot out of the water while steaming through heavy seas, circa 1916. Note the water streaming from her hull gun casemates and top of her side armor.
    Photographed by Wilkinson.

    Collection of Chief Warrant Officer J.B. Dofflemeyer, 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78269

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    In dry dock, circa 1917.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 460 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44221-A

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    Catapulting a Curtiss "F" type flying boat while underway, 25 June 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44221

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    Catapulting a Curtiss "F" type flying boat while underway, 25 June 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93103

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    Steaming at sea with a convoy, circa mid-1917.
    Note that Huntington is fitted with a catapult over her after deck, and is carrying at least two seaplanes.
    Photographed from on board USS Maumee (Fuel Ship # 14, later AO-2).

    Collection of Hubert C. Rickert, courtesy of Daniel Rickert, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     


    The ship seen in the following image is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or her sister, USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8):

    Photo #: NH 101603

    U.S. Navy armored cruiser


    In dry dock during the early "Teens".
    This ship is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8).

    Courtesy of H.E. "Ed" Coffer, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5), taken while she was fitted with a catapult in 1917. The following list features some of these images:

    The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: 80-G-452756
    USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5) underway on 2 June 1917, with a Curtiss "F" type flying boat on her catapult.
    Port quarter high aerial view, very similar to Photo # NH 44221-A (seen above on this page), except that the aircraft is at the forward end of the catapult, in position for launching. NOTE ALSO that the date is given as 2 June, rather than 25 June 1917.

  • Photo #: 80-G-189767
    USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5) underway on 25 June 1917, with a Curtiss "F" type flying boat on her catapult.
    High aerial view, taken from almost directly above the ship's stern, looking down and somewhat forward. The aircraft is at the forward end of the catapult, in position for launching. Awnings are rigged as in Photo #s 80-G-452756 and NH 44721-A.


  • Photo #: 80-G-452807
    USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5) at Pensacola, Florida, on 25 June 1917, with a kite balloon over her stern.
    Starboard quarter surface view (rather tight on the stern). The ship is at anchor, with her boat booms out and a steam picket boat is seen in broadside in the image's right side. An aircraft appears to be on her catapult. The kite balloon is floating at about mast top height.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5, later CA-5), 1905-1930. Renamed Huntington in November 1916 -- Selected Views.


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


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