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	617k	The Casco, light-draft monitor, 1865, while serving as a spar torpedo vessel. Note the torpedo gear mounted on her bow. Although these vessels were designed as light draft monitors, they were found to have some design problems and therefore they are not included in the monitor category, but they were completed as torpedo vessels, or gunboats.		Library of Congress photo # LC-B811-2692, courtesy of Mike Green.
monitorcrowsnest	780k	Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 Series:Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, 1921 - 1940 Item: Monitors near Crow's Nest, James River, Va.		National Archives Identifier: 529667 Local Identifier: 111-B-5570. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker.
monitorgundeck	1.03k	Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 Series:Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, 1921 - 1940 Item: Gun squad on deck of monitor.		National Archives Identifier: 525020 Local Identifier: 111-B-612. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker.
	1.65k	Firing a pivot gun.		Photo from The American Navy with Introduction and Descriptive Text - Reproductions of Photographs - Belford, Middlebrook & Co. - Chicago, 1898, submitted by Thomas Becher.
	1.54k	Spinning a yarn.		Photo from The American Navy with Introduction and Descriptive Text - Reproductions of Photographs - Belford, Middlebrook & Co. - Chicago, 1898, submitted by Thomas Becher.
	3.57k	RIVAL NAVIES A Comparison Between Spain's and Our Ships WARSHIPS OF SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES CONTRASTED. SPANISH FLEET IS THE DARK ONE		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The Herald [microform]. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 28 March 1897, Image 18, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	774k	BATTLESHIP WITH ITS SUBMARINE BOAT. G.C. Coffin, the marine artist, has invented a battleship which will carry a submarine boat and release it when it nears an enemy's fleet. The cut, from The New York Journal, shows the submarine boat backing out, ready for action.		Image and text provided by University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Photo from The Breckenridge News. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 21 April 1897, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.34k	THEY WILL WIPE OUT THE YANKEES THE PELAYO, SPAIN'S MOST EFFECTIVE WARSHIP A Lieutenant of the Spanish Navy Outlines Spain's Plans For the Subjugation of the American People The Vizcaya Is Relied On to Be Able to Effect the Destruction of New York City and Other American Ports Will Be Taken Care Of Annihilation Promised		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The Herald.(Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 21 February 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.75k	CONGRESS TO STRENGTHEN THE NAVY WILL BUILD THE LARGEST OF WARSHIPS Uncle Sam to Construct the George Washington in One Year. COMMODORE PHILIP HICHBORN, U. S. N., Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Who Will Have Charge of the building of the Proposed Battleship George Washington		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 23 February 1898, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.32k	SPAIN SPEEDING VESSELS WHILE WAR FEELING GROWS Pictorial Representation of the Spanish-American Situation, Showing Movements of the Respective War Vessels.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 04 April 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	553k	A Modern Naval Battle at Its Height		Image and text provided by Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, KS. Photo & text by The Wichita Daily Eagle. (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 04 April 1898, EXTRA, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	4.05k	HOW WE CAN PROTECT OUR BATTLESHIPS The New Torpedo Shield. It is a false outer steel wall and could protect the United States Warships Massachusetts (BB-2), Indiana (BB-1), Iowa (BB-4), Texas, New York, Brooklyn, Kentucky (BB-6) and Others as Valuable From the Dangerous and Numerous Spanish Torpedo boats, Perhaps the Greatest Menace to Our Navy		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 10 April 1898, Image 16, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	324k	THE MAN IN THE FIGHTING TOP		Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo & text by Deseret Evening News.(Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 07 May 1898, Part 2, Image 10, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.55k	THE ORGANIZATION OF A FLOATING WAR MACHINE		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The National Tribune.(Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 26 May 1898, Image 6, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	699k	HOW OUR SQUADRONS OUTCLASS CERVERA'S FLEET		Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo & text courtesy of The Times Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 29 May 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.26k	WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO SAN FRANCISCO IF COMMODORE DEWEY DID NOT HAVE THE SPANISH FLEET IN CHECK IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 01 May 1898, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	4.08k	'Midst bursting shells and the bloody carnage of battle the men of the United States ambulance ship will with indifference to personal danger carry out the noble work. A tug is shown above transferring the wounded from a battleship to the ambulance ship Solace (AH-2).		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 12 June 1898, Image 17. via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.12k	SANTIAGO HARBOR, THE RETREAT OF CERVERA, SHOWING THE FORTS BOMBARDED		Image and text provided by University of Florida. Photo & text by Gulf Coast Breeze. (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 17 June 1898, Image 4 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	276k	This is an original 1898 halftone print of Admiral Cervera's Cape Verde battleship Fleet from the Scientific American Journal for May 28th. The illustrated ships are the Vizcaya, Furor, Almirante Oquendo, Christobal Colon, Pluton, Maria Teresa, and Terror.		Photo courtesy of periodpaper.com
	1.06k	HOW THE COILS ARE TIGHTENING AROUND SANTIAGO AND CERVERA The Americans have established military bases at Punta Cabrera and Surgidero de Aguadores. The sunken Merrimac blocks the channel of the harbor entrance. The American fleet prevents any possibility of relief from the sea. The Cubans under Garcia hold the land approaches to the city, and the American army is on the way to land, march against the town and force Cervera to sink or surrender his ships.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 18 June 1898, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	4.93k	HOW MORRO CASTLE MAY BE TAKEN.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The Record-Union.(Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 08 July 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.08k	North Atlantic Squadron anchored off Squirrel Is. Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 16 July 1899.		Photo courtesy of John Chiquoine.
	1.37k	SCENE AT THE PORTSMOUTH NAVY YARD AND SEAVY' ISLAND, WHERE THE PRISONERS OF CEVEREA'S FLEET ARE CONFINED		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The Herald.(Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 02 August 1898, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	A $20,000,000 BATTLESHIP 1,000 FEET LONG Model of "The American Boy." The great war vessel which the school children of the United States propose to build and present to Uncle Sam. It will be the largest vessel afloat, with displacement of 48,410 tons, with 24-inch guns, armor 36 inches thick, length, 1,000 feet, speed of 40 knots, together with war balloons, war telescopes, hydraulic dredges, submarine boats, four smokestacks, eight turbine screws and 300 auxiliary engines.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside, Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. & Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH. Photo from The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 22 April 1898, Image 10; The Saint Paul Globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 08 August 1898, Image 3 & Marietta Daily Leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 15 November 1898, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
01coaling	1.18k	Coaling U.S. battleships at St. Thomas, West Indies,1898.		Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-65568 courtesy of loc.gov
	990k	GIRL WHO WANTS TO BUY A BATTLESHIP Miss Mary Mears, daughter of John W. Mears, cashier of the Great Northern hotel,Chicago, 'thinks the patriotic American girls should build a warship for the government. "I think the American girls should be as patriotic as the American boys," she says. They certainly deserve as much to have a battleship in the navy of our country, named after them and built through their gifts, as do the American boys. There are as many of us, and our dimes and dollars are surely as ready to flow into this channel."		Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Missouri; Columbia, MO. Photo from Kansas City Journal. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 17 August 1898, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.43k	The Merrimac of New York Harbor $150,000 HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED TO CLEAR THE OBSTRUCTIONS WHICH WOULD HAVE KEPT SPAIN'S WARSHIPS OUT OF THE FAMOUS WATERS OF NEW YORK BAY On the tenth of last December the necessity of immediate action in clearing away the Merrimac was pointed out very clearly by the battleship Massachusetts (BB-2) striking it on the after noon of that day and doing a great deal of damage to her hull and bilge keels!		Image and text provided by Montana Historical Society; Helena, MT. Photo & text by Daily Inter Mountain. (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 14 January 1899, Image 11, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
010011d	2.08k	North Atlantic Squadron anchored off Squirrel Is. Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 16 July 1899.		Photo courtesy of John Chiquoine.
	1.07k	THE UNITED STATES HONORS ITS SAILOR HERO BY THE GRANDEST NAVAL DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED IN AMERICAN WATERS		Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo & text by The Salt Lake Herald. (Salt Lake City [Utah) 1870-1909, 30 September 1899, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	4.34k	WARFARE NOVELTIES NEW BATTLESHIPS WHICH ARE TO REVOLUTIONIZE SEA FIGHTING AN INVULNERABLE CRAFT A Ship So Constructed That a Shell Striking Any Part of It Must Meet a Slant, and So Glance Off-Method of Rendering Harbors Impregnable Against Attack by Sea Submerged Earthworks.		Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Saint Paul Globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 17 September 1899, Image 5, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	THE UNITED STATES MUST BUILD MORE MEN-OF-WAR		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 06 May 1900, Image 26, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.28k	LAUNCHING A SUBMARINE BOAT FROM A MAN OF WAR After an imaginative sketch by an English artist. An English paper suggests that small craft of that kind be carried on battleships.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 05 May 1901, Image 30, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	291k	BIG WAR GAME OFF NEW ENGLAND COAST The big naval and military war game, which has stirred the whole country, has drawn to a close and the decision of the judges as to whether the attacking fleet was more or less successful in its operation than the defending forces, is eagerly awaited. This decision will be arrived at in the most careful and logical way, every separate point of the contest being given due weight. The basis upon which the contest rests is mainly "discovery zones." That is, the attacking and defending forces which got nearer to the enemy than would be safe in real warfare, scored a point for every march stolen. Discovery by the foe, on the other hand, meant the loss of a point. Every time the forts discovered a battleship within gun range the ship was considered disabled. Thus the searchlights and war balloons played an important part in the contest. A graphic conception of the realistic nature of the maneuvers may be obtained by a glance at the above pictures of actual maneuvers.		Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo from The Courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 30 August 1902, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	695k	AMERICA'S NEWEST NAVY THE SIXTY VESSELS NOW PROVIDED FOR BY ACTS OF CONGRESS.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo by The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 22 April 1903, Image 5, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	879k	ADMIRAL EVANS'S FLEET IN HONOLULU HARBOR The Wisconsin (BB-9) appears to be in the right corner, possibly with the Kentucky (BB-6) alongside.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 20 December 1903, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	842k	THE ILLUMINATED BATTLESHIPS AT THE HONOLULU NAVAL DOCK ON THE NIGHT OF 26 DECEMBER 1903.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 01 January 1904, PART 3, Image 23, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	757k	AMERICA'S NEW HARBOR THE PEARL HARBOR LOCHS AND NAVAL STATION, OAHU.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo by The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	816k	AMERICA'S STRONGEST SQUADRON. VESSELS OF NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET ASSEMBLED AT PENSACOLA. Officers and Crew of Battleship Alabama (BB-8). After-turret of the Battleship Missouri (BB-11) in which the charge of the twelve-inch gun at left prematurely exploded killing thirty-two men and wounding two.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 06 May 1904, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.87k	UNCLE SAM ON THE WATCH HOW THE SHIPS OF OUR NAVY ARE DISTRIBUTED OVER THE WATERS OF THE EARTH		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 27 March 1904, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.19k	Great Naval Battles Will Be Refought Daily War is hell; said Gen Sherman. In a naval spectatorlum that has been built at Luna Park, Messrs Thompson & Dundy will reproduce some of the most famous sea fights of modern history. Real battleships will take part in real fights on real water. The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac will be shown, the blowing up of the Maine in Havana Harbor, the torpedo attack on Port Arthur by the Japanese and the bombardment of New York City in 1950 by a foreign fleet.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 06 May 1904, Final Results Edition, Image 15, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
0131inch	571k	Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs File Unit: Navy - Artillery. Item: A three inch gun on board a U.S. battleship, 1 April 1905.		Photographer: Recruiting Publicity Bureau of U.S.M.C. National Archives Identifier: 45510016 Local Identifier: 165-WW-321C-020. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker.
01a0018	593k	TAKING STORES ABOARD. Eight hundred men are quite a number to feed...		Photo by Enrique Mueller Jr., 1905, from loc.gov courtesy of Joe Reese.
	535k	New York Navy Yard, 1905 photo by Enrique Mueller Jr. Moored to the left might be the Massachusetts (BB-02), to the left is a Maine class battleship.		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	356k	Stereoscopic color print of Naval Review at Oyster Bay during the summer of 1906.		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	521k	Warships at anchor in front of the Chamberlin Hotel.		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
01a0103k	489k	SIGNALING FROM THE BRIDGE. Signaling in the Navy has been brought up to a high standard of efficiency.		Photo by Enrique Mueller Jr., 1906, from loc.gov courtesy of Joe Reese.
	798k	Rapid Fire Drill on Board a US Man O'War - copyright Muller 1906.		Photo courtesy of Arnold Putnam.
	2.70k	Uncle Sam To Build World's Biggest Battleship AMERICA, GREATEST OF BATTLESHIPS COMPARED WITH OLD CONSTITUTION		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation & University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 22 December 1906, Evening Edition, Final Results Edition, Image 2, & Deseret Evening News. (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 12 January 1907, Last Edition, Image 10, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	814k	THE BATTLESHIP OF THE FUTURE Displacement, 26,000 tons. Speed with producer-gas engines, 22.5 knots. Cruising radius, 13,000 miles. Armor: Belt, 12 inches; barbettes, 16.4 inches; turrets (face), 16.4 inches. Armament: Sixteen 12-inch, 50-caliber, 75-ton guns, firing 1200-pound shell with 3300 foot-seconds velocity. Torpedo boat defense, twenty 4.7-inch, 60-caliber guns, firing 50-po in two diamond-shaped barbettes at each end of central armored redoubt. The main battery fires a shell with 4000 foot-seconds velocity. Note the absence of smokestacks.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 03 March 1907, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	704k	GREATEST AMERICAN FLEET EVER ASSEMBLED IN TIME of PEACE or WAR UNDER ONE COMMANDER		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 21 April 1907, Magazine Section, Image 47, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.65k	OUR WAR WITH JAPAN A Brief History of Events Ending March, 1917, BY ATHERTON BROWNELL. THE JAPANESE SWARMED LIKE ANTS INTO OUR INCOMPLETE BATTERIES AT PEARL HARBOR, CAPTURING THEM. RIOTS IN TOKIO AND KIOTO FOLLOWED THE JAPANESE EXCLUSION ACT, AMERICANS BEING ASSAULTED ON ALL SIDES THE AMERICAN FLEET AT HAWAII, OUTNUMBERED, OVERWHELMED BY WEIGHT OF METAL, AND WITHOUT REFUGE, FOUGHT UNTIL THE LAST STAR ON THE HIGHEST PENNANT HAD SUNK BENEATH THE WAVES.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 05 May 1907, Images 5 & 6, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	592k	Circa 1907 photograph of US Navy battleships of the Maine, Virginia & Connecticut -classes & other units of the Atlantic fleet at a Naval Review off Old Point Comfort.		Photographed by William H. Rau, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, courtesy of the Library of Congress & National Museum of the U.S. Navy via flickr.com.
	677k	The Fist of the Nation. Our Fleet a Homogeneous Unit Prepared for Any Command Beginning from the right: Ohio (BB-12), Kearsage (BB-5), Kentucky (BB-6), Alabama (BB-8), Illinois (BB-7), Connecticut (BB-18), Maine (BB-10), Missouri (BB-11), Virginia (BB-13), New Jersey (BB-16), Rhode Island (BB-17), Georgia (BB-15).		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo & text by The Hawaiian Gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 17 September 1907, Image 13, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	HERE'S THE 30,000 TON BATTLESHIP LEWIS NIXON DESCRIBES HIS IDEAL SEA-FIGHTER		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 22 September 1907, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.67k	BE ALWAYS READY FOR WAR IS THE PLAN FOR THE UNITED STATES, SAYS ROOSEVELT The President holds a Connecticut class (BB-18 / 22 & 25) battleship.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo & text by The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 03 October 1907, Final Results Edition, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.59k	'Fighting Bob' Slaps San Francisco EVANS READY FOR FROLIC OR A FIGHT ADMIRAL FEARS HOSPITALITY OF SAN FRANCISCO RATHER GO TO JAPAN THAN TO CALIFORNIA METROPOLIS		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 04 November 1907, Image 1 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.89k	SING HO! AS MERRILY WE ROLL AROUND THE GREAT WORLD ON HEAVING DECKS OF UNCLE SAM'S BIG BATTLESHIPS		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo & text by The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 27 November 1907, Last Edition, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.29k	BATTLESHIPS READY FOR CRUISE TO PACIFIC.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 13 December 1907, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.41k	BATTLE FLEET READY HOW JACKIES WILL SPEND THEIR TIME Men Are Happy at Prospect of Long Cruise		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by The Washington Herald. (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 15 December 1907, Image 11, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	645k	AS THEY APPEAR STEAMING SOUTHWARD.		Image and text provided by University of New Mexico. Photo & text by Albuquerque Citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 21 December 1907, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	628k	EVANS SHIPS JUST AT TURN TO SOUTHWARD THE ATLANTIC FLEET From a Photograph Taken by the Telescope Camera Which Shows the Connecticut (BB-18) Leading the Way to the Seas Under the Southern Cross		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 21 December 1907, Last Edition, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	400k	Circa 1909 photograph of US Navy battleships (either Connecticut-class or Virginia-class) anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The battleship was part of the Great White Fleet which arrived in Hampton Roads on 22 February 1909 after completing a two year world tour. The first Chamberlain Hotel at Fort Monroe and Old Point Comfort is visible in the background on right.		Photo from The Virginian-Pilot Photograph Collection / SMC Photograph Collection from the Norfolk Public Library (Va.)
	852k	Three photo post card view PDF of: Prison Portsmouth NH - no date, SUNSET AT NEW CASTLE NH - looking topwards Naval Prison - postmark 1907 & US NAVAL PRISON, NAVY YARD, PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE - b and w - postmark 1945.		Photos courtesy of Arnold Putnam.
	67k	"Sailors making foot-mats" on board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa 1907-1908. Note fire hose stowed in the background. This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet World cruise.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106073. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
	70k	"Scrubbing down decks" on board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa 1907-1908. Note the ship's forecastle winch and anchor davits, laundry drying on lines running up from the bow to the foremast, and fire-hose hung on the lifelines at left. This view may have been taken during the "Great White Fleet World cruise. Note fire hose stowed in the background.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106074. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
	384k	Stereoscopic color print of Mess time on board ship during the "Great White Fleet".		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	353k	Stereoscopic color print of a favorite pastime during the "Great White Fleet".		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	331k	Stereoscopic color print of a rapid firing gun during the "Great White Fleet".		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	386k	Stereoscopic color print of a Liberty party during the "Great White Fleet".		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	355k	Stereoscopic color print of the ship's tailor during the "Great White Fleet".		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	522k	Nothing in sight for days, but 16 ships and the horizon.		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	3.30k	General view of the harbor front of Rio Janeiro, where the American battleship fleet under Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans arrived yesterday and received a great welcome from Brazilians.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 13 January 1908, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.26k	EVANS' BATTLESHIPS GET HURRY-UP ORDER. CALLAO, WHERE EVANS' FLEET ANCHORED TODAY		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo by The Spokane Press. (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 18 February 1908, Image 4, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	918k	At the left is Captain Richard Wainwright, who will become an admiral and succeed Evans when the fleet arrives at San Francisco. In the upper right corner is a photograph showing the reception the people of Callao gave a passenger steamer on entering their harbor. Below is a photograph of the plaza at Callao, where the American jackies and people gather for concerts.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 23 February 1908, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	578k	Peruvians Entertained Fleet In Glorious Style		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from Evening Bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, 11 March 1908, 3:30 O'CLOCK EDITION, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	5.39k	UNITED STATES FLEET UNDER EVANS TRIUMPHANTLY PERFORMS GREATEST MANEUVER IN NAVAL HISTORY PRESS HAS FLOATING NEWSPAPER OFFICE WITH FLEET AT MAGDALENA BAY		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo by The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 12 March 1908,Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	743k	WONDERFUL WIRELESS MESSAGE WAS CORRESPONDENT ROSE'S DISPATCH BROKEN LINE SHOWS ROUTE TAKEN BY CORRESPONDENT ROSE'S WIRELESS MESSAGE FROM THE FLEET.		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo & text by The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 16 March 1908, Last Edition, Image 8, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.88k	MIGHTY SENTINELS WITH SHOW-HOODED PEAKS WATCHED U. S. BATTLESHIPS, MERE TOYS, CREEP THROUGH MAGELLAN STRAITS		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo by The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 30 March 1908, Last Edition, Image 7, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	351k	FLEET PASSING THROUGH VALPARAISO HARBOR. SECRETARY METCALF HAS MADE PUBLIC QUOTATIONS FROM A LETTER RECEIVED BY AN OFFICER IN THE DEPARTMENT FROM ONE OF THE REAR ADMIRALS IN COMMAND OF THE FLEET. THE LETTER SAYS IN PART: I NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THE REVIEW OF THIS FLEET IN THE BAY OF VALPARAISO BY THE PRESIDENT OF CHILE IT HAD BEEN ARRANGED TO ENTER AT TWO O'CLOCK AND AT THAT HOUR TO A MINUTE THE HEAD OF THE FLEET IN PERFECT COLUMN PASSED REEF TOPSAIL POINT WITH THE CHILEAN FLAG AT THE MAIN. WE STOOD IN UNTIL PARALLEL TO THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF THE BAY. FIRED A SIMULTANEOUS 21 GUN SALUTE TO THE FLAG FROM ALL THE SHIPS, TURNED NORTHWARD PARALLEL TO THE SHIPPING AND THEN AGAIN PARALLEL TO THE NORTH SHORE. JUST AFTER THIS LAST TURN WE PASSED THE PRESIDENT IN A MAN-OF-WAR, EACH SHIP SALUTING IN TURN. AS THE REAR SHIP FIRED THE LAST GUN OF HER SALUTE ALL THE FLAGS CAME DOWN TOGETHER, SPEED WAS INCREASED, AND WE STOOD OFF FOR CALLAO. THERE WAS NOT ONE DETAIL THAT EVANS DID NOT KNOW ABOUT OR ARRANGE FOR.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from Evening Bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, 11 April 1908, LATEST EDITION, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	720k	GREAT BATTLESHIP SQUADRON WHILE ON A VISIT TO FRIENDLY PORT FLEET SHORTLY AFTER ANCHORING IN CALLAO HARBOR		Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ. Photo & text by Bisbee Daily Review.(Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 01 April 1908, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.35k	Scenes at San Diego Where Atlantic Fleet Is Anchored		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo by Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 16 April 1908, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	747k	BOMBARDMENT OF FLOWERS IS AWAITING EVANS FLEET Gondola Float of Roses and Wild Flowers.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by The Washington Times.(Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 26 April 1908, Magazine Section, Image 31, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.23k	THE WORLD'S GREATEST FLEET NOW IN CALIFORNIA WATERS Fifty-Three War Ships and Auxiliary Naval Crafts Ready for Voyage Across Pacific Thirty Thousand Officers and Men Under Command of Admiral. Ships Reach More than 10 Miles		Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo & text by The Times Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 03 May 1908, INDUSTRIAL SECTION, Image 19, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	662k	GREAT BATTLESHIPS OF THE ATLANTIC FLEET ARMADA		Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo & text courtesy of The Salt Lake Tribune.(Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 03 May 1908, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	ATLANTIC FLEET OFF THE PACIFIC COAST AFTER LONG JOURNEY AROUND SOUTH AMERICA		Image and text provided by University of New Mexico. Photo from Albuquerque Citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 06 May 1908, Image 1 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.07k	FLEET ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 06 May 1908, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	940k	San Francisco's Hundred Hills Thronged by Western Patriots, Who Thrill With Pride as, One by One, the White Ships Slip Out of the Fog Through the Golden Gate to Anchorage		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 07 May 1908, Image 2 & 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Photo fix courtesy of Tom Kermen, Inc.
	2.18k	THUNDER OF ADMIRAL EVAN'S GUNS BRINGS WATER FROM PARCHED WELLS AT DROUGHT CURSED MAGDALENA BAY.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 10 May 1908, Magazine Section, Image 32, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.34k	THE FLEET AT NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY. FROM PHOTOGRAPH ARRANGEMENT, SHOWING 11 ILLUMINATED SHIPS, SAN FRANCISCO SKY LINE AND GIANT "WELCOME" SIGN ON TELEGRAPH HILL.		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo & text by The Spokane Press. (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 12 May 1908, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.46k	Fleet's Officers and Men See the City and Mountains Scenes in yesterday's entertainment of fleet visitors - To the right is shown Miss Emma Herrscher and the goat mascot she presented to the sailors of the Connecticut (BB-18).		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 12 May 1908, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.03k	Ten Thousand Children's Voices Join in Songs of Welcome for Bluejackets of Fleet Photograph showing the stadium in Golden Gate park, the chorus of 10,000 little singers and the great crowds of young and old who attended the celebration in honor of the bluejackets of the fleet. More than 1,500 seamen from the war vessels listened to the program by the pupils and later partook of the luncheon furnished by the club women in charge of the festivities.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 14 May 1908, Image 11, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.64k	ATLANTIC FLEET ANCHORS IN SEATTLE'S HARBOR REAR ADMIRAL SPERRY AND HIS BATTLESHIPS ARE NOW THE GUESTS OF THE QUEEN CITY		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo & text by The Seattle Star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 23 May 1908, Last Edition, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	759k	THE ARMADA AT SEA		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 13 July 1908, Image 9, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	494k	BATTLESHIPS PASSING DIAMOND HEAD.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo by The Hawaiian Gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 17 July 1908, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	953k	ISLAND POSSESSIONS WHERE THE PACIFIC FLEET RECEIVED AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME AMERICAN WARSHIPS AT ANCHOR IN HONOLULU HARBOR		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by The Washington Herald. (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 19 July 1908, Image 5, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	548k	TODAY THE FLEET SAILS WAY FOR SOUTHERN CROSS AND THE COLONIES BATTLESHIPS WERE ABLAZE WITH ELECTRIC LIGHTS BATTLESHIPS IN HONOLULU HARBOR		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo & text by The Hawaiian Gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 24 July 1908, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	572k	BATTLESHIP FLEET WENT SOUTH AT SUNDOWN		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo & text by The Hawaiian Gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 24 July 1908, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	434k	Lowering a projectile into magazine of a battleship, circa 1908.		LC-DIG-npcc-19818 courtesy of catalog.archives.gov.
	3.32k	Australians Publicly Welcome Officers, and Men of American Battleship Fleet		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 21 August 1908, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	81k	Vintage Great White Fleet Serves The Americas Navy Fleet Of Ships Sugar Cube.		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	1.28k	The beach at Ocean Park, with the Hotel Decatur and the Ocean Park bath house to the left. At anchor in the distance the battleships Minnesota (BB-22), Missouri (BB-11), Maine (BB-10) and Ohio (BB-12) of the second division of the Atlantic fleet may be seen. The picture shows one of the immense crowds which assemble daily during the summer months to enjoy the fine bathing facilities which the beach affords. During the visit of the Atlantic fleet, when the whole sixteen battleships assembled at this point preparatory to sailing for the north, the people that lined the shore were numbered into the hundred thousands. The immense fleet had no difficulty whatever in performing some of the most intricate maneuvers in the deep waters of the Crescent bay.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 20 December 1908, Image 98, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.51k	THE UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP FLEET, NOW IN THE RED SEA, WHICH WILL PROBABLY BE SENT TO MESSINA TO AID IN THE RELIEF WORK.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text courtesy of New-York Tribune.(New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 01 January 1909, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	SAILORS OF BATTLESHIP FLEET VISITING THE SPHINX. The sailors of the American battleship fleet on their remarkable cruise around the world saw many wonderful sights, and many are the stories of travel in strange lands that these gallant boys will have to tell when they reach their own firesides. This picture shows a few hundred of them visiting that grand old relic of antiquity, the sphinx. The boys played ball, ran foot races and had a jolly time generally around the grim old monument to early civilization.		Image and text provided by Arkansas State Archives. Photo from The Prescott Daily News. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 04 June 1909, Image 4, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.16k	OLD DOMINION WELCOMES THE WORLD-CIRCLING FLEET ON ITS RETURN TO VIRGINIA WATERS HOW THE COMBINED FLEETS WILL LINE UP IN REVIEW Positions of the American battleship fleet when they will be reviewed in Hampton Roads after worlds cruise.		Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo & text courtesy of The Times Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 22 February 1909, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	550k	BIG BATTLESHIP FLEET AND THE COMMANDERS WHO GIRDLED THE WORLD.		Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ. Photo from Bisbee Daily Review. (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 03 March 1909, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.26k	Around the World with the Fleet HAMPTON ROADS TO SAN FRANCISCO The Fleet Leaves Hampton Roads. Spectators at Fortress Monroe Watching the Fleet Steam Away on Its Famous Voyage.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 07 March 1909, Image 38, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.43k	WITH THE BATTLE FLEET With the Battle Fleet on 16 December 1907, there sailed from Hampton roads the most powerful battle fleet ever assembled under the American flag for the longest cruise ever undertaken by any fleet of any nation. The fleet sailed for the straits of Magellan, and thence for the Golden Gate. President Roosevelt gave the order for this remarkable naval demonstration, which meant the sending of 14.000 men on a journey of 14,000 miles, and which later developed into a world cruise. The New York Sun sent Franklin Matthews with the fleet as official correspondent, and he was the guest of Captain Wainwright on the United States battleship Louisiana (BB-19) during the entire trip to San Francisco. Matthews letters to his paper were of such interest and of importance that they have been rescued from oblivion and put into book form. They now constitute a quasi official record of the trip; for each letter was passed upon by a duly assigned naval officer before being sent. The social life on shipboard is described, and duties of the men and the officers and the visits at the route were graphically pictured. The most prominent men in the navy were seen at close range by the author, and every American who takes an interest in his country should read this description of the fleet and its adventures. The book is illustrated by Henry Reuterdahl, famous because of his articles of criticism which caused such a stir in naval circles. His pictures are as necessary as the text to understand this wonderful journey of the fleet, and deserve special praise. The book should be in every library.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 07 March 1909, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	618k	THE BATTLESHIP OF THE FUTURE DRIVEN BY INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES, WITHOUT FUNNELS, AND WITH SKELETON FIGHTING-TOP. The artist has given this vessel of his imagination the probable battleship of the future features that are more than likely to be found in such craft before long. The skeleton fighting-top for instance, is already to be seen on at least one American warship while the British Admiralty have been putting the internal-combustion engine to severe tests for some time.		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 02 May 1909, Sunday Edition, SECOND SECTION, Image 15, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	745k	Why Uncle Sam's New Navy Is Obliged to Grow Slowly.		Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE Photo from Dakota County Herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965, 21 May 1909, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.24k	UNITED STATES BATTLESHIPS TO LOSE FIGUREHEADS. THE OLYMPIA'S(C-6) FIGUREHEAD, DESIGNED BY SAINT-GAUDENS, AND WHICH IS TO BE EVENTUALLY REMOVED. THESE FIGUREHEADS ARE OF BRASS, AND HELP TO MAKE THE SHIP A TARGET FOR THE ENEMY'S GUNS FIGUREHEAD OF THE OLD NIAGARA, AT THE BOSTON NAVY-YARD. FIGUREHEADS TO BE REMOVED WILL BE SENT TO VARIOUS YARDS.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by Los Angeles Herald [microform]. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 30 May 1909, Image 56, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	THE BATTLESHIPS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET IN PROVINCETOWN HARBOR. HOW THE SHIPS APPEAR EQUIPPED WITH THE NEW FIRE CONTROL MASTS		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by New-York Tribune.(New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 22 July 1909, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.99k	Line of battleships up the Hudson, New York, N.Y., for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 25 September - 9 October 1909.		Photo LC-DIG-det-4a19546 courtesy of catalog.archives.gov.
	NR	WARSHIPS OUTLINED IN LIGHT WHILE FIREWORKS FILLED THE AIR LAST NIGHT.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 26 September 1909, Image 11, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.96k	Line of battleships at night, Hudson River, 1909.		Photo LC-DIG-det-4a19539 courtesy of catalog.archives.gov by Edward H. Hart, Detroit Photographic Company.
	2.27k	YACHTS DRESSED FOR HUDSON FULTON FETE: WARSHIP FLEET HALF MOON UNDER SAIL. There were seventy eight steam yachts in the great parade of vessels that encircled the international war ship fleet at the Hudson-Fulton celebration. These yachts representing many millions of dollars were gaily decked with flags for the afternoon parade and in the evening procession they were brilliantly illuminated with colored lights and many of them played searchlights on the warships and along the shores of the river as they proceeded up the stream. As the parade passed along the ten mile line of warships each in turn saluted the Half Moon and the Clermont with twenty-one guns. Such a thunder of guns was never heard in or around the harbor of New York. Although the palatial yachts formed only a small part of the water pageant they attracted a great deal of attention. J. Pierpont Morgan's palatial Corsair was the flagship of the yacht fleet which consisted of eight divisions. These pictures show some of the yachts dressed for the gala occasion and the Half Moon under sail.		Image and text provided by University of Florida. Photo & text by The Pensacola Journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 30 September 1909, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.17k	DIAGRAM OF NEW YORK'S NAVAL PARADE VIEWS OF THE FLEET BY DAY AND BY NIGHT		Image and text provided by University of Florida. Photo & text by The Pensacola Journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 05 October 1909, Section 1, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.72k	Prow of Uncle Sam's Concrete Battleship, so called, and the type of the mighty weapons she will carry. Drawing shows one end of the elliptical fort with thick walls of concrete, now being erected on the little island of El Fraile, in Manila Bay. Below is a gun of the 14-inch style, and for purposes of comparison a body of twenty-one mounted troopers is placed in juxtaposition. The fort will carry two of these 14-inch guns, each 53.2 feet long.		Photo & text by chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Tribune, 2 January 1910.
	745k	HOW AEROPLANES WILL APPEAR FLYING OVER ATLANTIC FLEET IN NAVY TESTS For over a month navy circles have been actively at work planing a second tour of the world for the American navy battleships and cruisers. President Taft is going to go Roosevelt one better and is planning to send a larger fleet with a number of spectacular incidents to impress the powers of the Far East and Europe. Within the next thirty days secret drills will be held in which tests will be made in connection with aeroplanes. A score of war vessels will carry on the test off Newport. Armed with bags containing flour, the aeroplanes will circle over the warships in an effort to blow them up with a five ounce bag of white flour. Just how the aeroplanes are to be hit has not been disclosed, but they are due to do some sensational flying if they escape the rapid fire guns of the ships. The men who will use the airships are in favor of being called 'Dead' by a jury rather than taking the risk of having their machines hit even with paper wads. The tests are expected to be the most interesting and sensational held under the auspices of the navy for a long time. During the recent drills of the Atlantic fleet, much attention was given to firing at small balloons that were turned loose from the different ships. The exact date for the tour of the combined fleet has not been settled, but it is announced at the navy building that the trip may start early in September, and the aeroplanes will be taken along. While the nations of the world are not in favor of blowing up warships from aeroplanes, still tests have been and will continue to be made until the matter is settled as to the practical end of the airships in the game of war.		Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ. Photo from Daily Arizona Silver Belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 18 May 1910, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	3.79k	Noted Society Woman Gives Sailors Twenty-four Thousand Cigarettes		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 27 August 1910, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	A NAVAL ARCHITECTS VISION OF THE COMING TYPE OF SEA FIGHTER THAT'S BRISTLING WITH 14-INCH RIFLES AN OIL FUEL BATTLESHIP OF THE FUTURE BRINGS ALL HER BIG GUNS OF TO-DAY, WHICH CAN ONLY REPLY FROM TWO OF HER TURRETS, BECAUSE HER OWN FUNNELS PREVENT HER FROM FIRING.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 09 October 1910, Image 20, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.50k	Riverside Panorama New York, October 1910. "Hudson River & Riverside Park; battleships of the Atlantic Fleet." Competing for our attention with a convoy of theater posters. Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. The only i.d. for the two closest three smokestack battleships would be from the Maine (BB-10 / 12), Virginia (BB-13 / 17) or Connecticut (BB-18 / 22 & 25) classes.		Image and text courtesy of shorpy.com.
	999k	Manoeuvres Along Atlantic Coast		Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo from The Times Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 16 July 1911, Image 38, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	632k	Types of Battleships Reported "Sunk" in Big Naval Game Off Block Island.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 19 July 1911, Final Edition, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	490k	UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTING FLEET TYPES OF THE ATLANTIC FLEET		Image and text provided by Oklahoma Historical Society. Photo from The Beaver Herald. (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 17 August 1911, Image 2, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	686k	MONSTER FLEET TO TAKE PART IN SPECTACULAR MIMIC NAVAL WAR OFF CHESAPEAKE CAPES		Image and text provided by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR. Photo & text courtesy of Medford Mail Tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, 02 September 1911, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	4.26k	A GUN FOR POTTING SKY SHIPS Admiral Twining Invents an Upright Rifle That Experts Believe Will Make the Heavens Too Dangerous for Bomb-Dropping Aeroplanes		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 08 October 1911, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	915k	Scenes at Review, by President Taft, of Monster Battleship Fleet Assembled in Hudson		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC & State Historical Society of North Dakota. Photo from The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 02 November 1911, Last Edition, Image 1 & Bismarck Daily Tribune. (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 02 November 1911, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	108k	OLD-FASHIONED HOLLOW STEEL MASTS TO REPLACE NEW SKELETON STRUCTURES IN NAVY BECAUSE VIBRATION HANDICAPS RANGE FINDERS		Image and text provided by Indiana State Library. PDF courtesy of The Lake County Times., (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 27 December 1911, EVENING EDITION, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.18k	Battle Fleet Flag of 1911. Flags of Every Nation Made at Lightning Speed in Brooklyn Navy Yard Thirty Women Supply Uncle Sam's Fleets with 24,000 Wind Whipped Bits of Bunting Every Twelvemonth.The Only Quarter woman in the Government Service Has Had Thirty Years' Experience in Cutting the Patterns.		Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-hec-00709 courtesy of Bill Gonyo. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 31 December 1911, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.08k	FROM THE MONITOR TO THE LATEST DREADNOUGHT Armament from the Monitor to the Nevada (BB-36).		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 25 February 1912, FOURTH SECTION, Image 45, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.17k	SHATTERED RELICS OF THE SPANISH FLEET OFF THE CUBAN COAST		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation Photo & text by The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 21 April 1912, SECOND SECTION, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.14k	TO DEMONSTRATE OUR NAVAL PROWESS		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 13 October 1912, SIXTH SECTION NAVAL REVIEW SUPPLEMENT, Image 71 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.42k	Key to the Double Page Bird's eye View of the Assembled Fleet		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 13 October 1912, SIXTH SECTION NAVAL REVIEW SUPPLEMENT, Image 72 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	925k	Naval review of 1912 Maj. Thomas L. Rhoads; President Taft; Lt. Cmdr John W. Timmonds; Comdr Gormley.		Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-hec-01622 & text courtesy of the Harris & Ewing Collection. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 15 October 1912, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	THE FLEET THUNDERING ITS GOODBYE, AS SEEN FROM THE HENDRICK HUDSON		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 16 October 1912, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	SCENE OF UNUSUAL BEAUTY WHEN FLEET AND SHORE WERE ILLUMINATED BY MANY THOUSANDS OF FLAMING ELECTRIC BULBS NEW YORK, Oct. 16—Pen cannot describe and even photography is inadequate in depicting the splendor of the scene at night during the visit of the fleet to this city. Thousands and thousands of electric lights were hung along Riverside drive, which parallels the Hudson river for miles, and all of the vessels in the fleet were outlined by lines of gleaming lamps. In the accompanying picture the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument appears in the foreground with the curved line of Riverside drive at the left. Several battleships are shown in the river, with the lights on the New Jersey shore in the distance.		Image and text provided by Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH. Photo by The Democratic Banner.(Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 18 October 1912, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	509k	Atlantic Fleet Sailors on Parade In New York; Mayor Gaynor and Others on Reviewing Stand		Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo & text courtesy of The Logan Republican.(Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 09 January 1913, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	56k	"A night signal gun". A Signalman practices with a portable flashing light signaling device, atop a battleship's conning tower, circa the mid-1910s. The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106277. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
	128k	USN sailors sighting rangefinders on battleship, 1910's.		Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
	102k	"A pie eating contest". On board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa the mid-1910s. The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106274. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
	101k	"Mining Drill". Sailors practice the employment of sea mines for the defense of advanced bases, on board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa the early or middle 1910s. New Hampshire (BB-25) is in the background. The original image, copyrighted by E. Muller Jr. from N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106270. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
	102k	"A Cock Fight -- Standing By". Crew members of a U.S. Navy battleship prepare to release their fighting poultry, circa the early or middle 1910s. The original image, copyrighted by E. Muller Jr. from N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106271. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
	58k	SAILING DUMMY UNITED STATES BATTLESHIPS MIMIC VESSELS MANEUVERED AT A BROOKLYN ARMORY FOR INSTRUCTION OF NAVAL CADETS.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 23 March 1913, FOURTH SECTION PICTORIAL MAGAZINE, Image 44, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	589k	NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET WILL TRY TO JIMMY OPEN THE BACK DOOR TO NEW YORK HARBOR		Image and text provided by Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH Photo from The Democratic Banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 05 August 1913, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.87k	Busy Inventors Plan Freak Ships to Meet Navy's Needs.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo by The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 24 August 1913, FOURTH SECTION PICTORIAL MAGAZINE, Image 33, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	482k	Over a Dozen American Warships Are Active In Mexican Waters The top picture shows the "business broadside" of one of the big battleships, and the bottom one shows the warships at League island.		Image and text provided by Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library. Photo & text by The Calumet News. (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 01 December 1913, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	730k	PREPARATIONS ON BATTLESHIPS THAT STAYED AT HOME Great activity is noticeable on some of the big battleships that did not go to Mexico last week with the North Atlantic fleet. The vessels are being rapidly made ready for active service, and the battleships Rhode Island (BB-17), Nebraska (BB-14), Georgia (BB-15) and Virginia (BB-13), may leave at any moment. The accompanying picture shows a boat load of potatoes being taken to one of the battleships in New York harbor."		Image and text provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL. Photo & text by Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 21 April 1914, HOME EDITION, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	363k	The United States Atlantic Fleet Which Arrived at the Port of Veracruz yesterday in Time for the Fighting on Shore What might be the Delaware class (BB-28 / 29) in the foreground.		Image and text provided by Oklahoma Historical Society. Photo & text courtesy of Tulsa Daily World. (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 22 April 1914, MORNING EDITION, Image 9, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	669k	HERE ARE SOME OF THE BIG GUNS THAT SWEPT THE CITY OF VERACRUZ The picture shows some of the big guns on one of the American battleships now in the harbor of Veracruz, Mexico. The battleships Connecticut (BB-18), Minnesota (BB-22), New Hampshire (BB-25), Louisiana (BB-19) and Vermont (BB-20) have each 44 guns like these....		Image and text provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL. Photo & text courtesy of Rock Island Argus.(Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 24 April 1914, HOME EDITION, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	645k	GREAT BIG NAVY NOW THOUGHT OF Forty-eight heavy-armored big-gun capital ships, each weighing from 20,000 to 30,000 tons, shooting ten miles and requiring 1,000 men for its operation. There would be one such ship for each state and each bearing the name of a state.		Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, 24 April 1914, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	710k	HERE'S HOW INCOMING FLEET LOOKED TO FOLKS AT TAMPICO		Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo courtesy of The Ogden Standard. (Ogden City, Utah) 1913-1920, 24 April 1914, 4 P.M. City Edition, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.26k	MESSAGE FROM THE BRIDGE These sailors are sending a message from the bridge of a battleship by what is known as the Ardois system of signaling.		Image and text provided by Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, LA. Photo courtesy of Abbeville Progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 02 May 1914, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	610k	JACKIES ON GUARD AT THE VERACRUZ CUSTOMS HOUSE		Image and text provided by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR. Photo & text courtesy of East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Or.) 1888-current, 06 May 1914, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	540k	HOW OUR JACKIES LANDED ON MEXICAN SOIL These are the first boatloads of armed bluejackets going ashore at Veracruz to take possession of that city.		Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo courtesy of The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, 08 May 1914, Image 9, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	545k	JACKIES AT VERACRUZ GETTING THE NEWS Part of the crew on a battleship at Veracruz perches on one of the 12 inch guns reading the first newspapers from home to learn their prospects of having more fighting with the Mexicans.		Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Photo from The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, 15 May 1914, Image 5, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	643k	The INNER WORKINGS of a Modern BATTLESHIP GUN		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of The Washington Herald. (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 28 June 1914, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 29, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.01k	U.S. Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va.; contract 2030 looking S.; Hennebique Const Co.; 4 January 1915. 3 Battleships masts sprouts in Norfolk. The nearest battleship that is bow-on pierside appears to be Louisiana (BB-19).		National Archives Identifier: 52556845 Local Identifier: 181-V-1030 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	1.55k	MAKING OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR OUR SEA FIGHTERS AN INTRICATE TASK INSTALLING A TURRET ON A MODERN BATTLESHIP A UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP UNDER CONSTRUCTION THE HULL COMPLETED, THE BATTLESHIP IS LAUNCHED The battleship might be the Florida (BB-30) under construction, 1910.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text courtesy of Evening Star. (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 31 January 1915, Image 49, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.26k	NEXT-The Submarine Battleship Gigantic Dreadnoughts, That Can Fight Like Floating Forts and Dive Like Ducks When Necessary, to Take the Place of Powerful but Vulnerable Ships of Today		Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA. Photo by Richmond Times-Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 14 February 1915, Image 49, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.16k	VICE-PRESIDENT REVIEWS FLEET From left to right: Admiral Howard, fleet commander; Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. The picture was snapped daring the Vice President's recent review of the Pacific squadron of the U.S. fleet in San Francisco bay off the World's Fair grounds.		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. Photo & text by The Tacoma Times. (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 01 April 1915, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	2.03k	Watching U.S. Navy Atlantic fleet warships depart during the Naval Review at New York City, New York, 18 May 1915.		Photo # Lot-11276-4 Collection of George Bain, from the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, via flickr.com.
	934k	PRESIDENT REVIEWS FORCES FROM ATLANTIC FLEET A slate colored, dripping sky, from which "occasional showers" fell, did nothing apparently to damage the interest of hundreds of thousands of spectators, shouldering and elbowing way to an eye hole through the solid ranks in front of them, along the whole line of the sailors march. President Wilson, who arrived from Washington on the Presidential yacht Mayflower shortly after midnight, reviewed the parade from the grand stand. It was easy to see from the President's demeanor that he very proud of the showing made by the marching thousands. The picture shows the parade passing the reviewing stand. The insert is of the President as he was saluting the colors.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo & text by The Washington Herald. (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 19 May 1915, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	711k	TWENTIETH CENTURY MONITOR INVENTED FOR U.S. NAVY		Image and text provided by University of Oregon, Knight Library; Eugene, OR. Photo from Medford Mail Tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, 26 May 1915, SECOND EDITION, Image 2, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	72k	"Plotting the trajectory of the 14" gun". An officer instructs battleship crew members in technical aspects of gunnery and fire control, circa the middle 1910s. The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106272. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008.
	3.87k	A Remarkable photograph of Dreadnoughts of the United States Navy maneuvering in a storm.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 26 December 1915, Image 40 & 41, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov & enhanced by Tom Kerman, Incorparated.
	547k	TOTAL TARGET PRACTICE Congressman A P Gardner in his fight for preparedness makes this exhibit of the prowess of the United States navy in big gun practice.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 23 January 1916, Image 19, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	772k	HER BATTLESHIP FUND GROWS. Marjorie Sterrett, who gave dime to build a warship.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 5, 18, 24 & 27 February 1916, Images 3, 6x2 & 54, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	870k	MARJORIE STERRETT AND HER CHIEF CHAMPION Thirteen year old battleship fund founder aboard the Washington (ACR-11) at the navy yard, and Colonel Roosevelt with Grace, one of his grandchildren, who sent 10 cents.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 08 February 1916, Image 9 & 04 March 1916, Image 4, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.00k	TWO YOUNG PATRIOTS IN BATTLESHIP FUND. MARJORIE DEAF TO SUDDEN FAME Just Enthusiastic, Normal Girl Despite Fact She's a National Celebrity. HELPS HER MOTHER WITH HOUSEWORK Also takes care of baby. Goes to School and Builds Battleships		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 21 February 1916, Image 6, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	NR	LOADING 13-INCH POWDER CHARGES ABOARD A UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 25 February 1916, Night Extra, Image 20, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	567k	SAYS ONE ENEMY SHIP COULD SINK U. S. PACIFIC FLEET Admiral Cameron McRae Winslow, commander of the U. S. Pacific fleet, told the house naval committee in the hearings on preparedness that one good warship could sink his entire fleet without being materially harmed....		Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ. Photo courtesy of Bisbee Daily Review. (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 11 March 1916, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	895k	"Hip, Hip, Hooray," Marjorie's Battleship Gets an Starter at the Hippodrome. Still going strong almost 100 years later.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 12 March 1916, Image 53, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	895k	BOOMING THE BATTLESHIP FUND IN FLUSHING.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 27 March 1916, Image 6, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	157k	Preparedness parade: A Float like Battleship of the Nevada (BB-36 / 37) class in 1916.		Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-hec-06848 & text courtesy of the Harris & Ewing Collection.
	730k	A Thousand-Foot Battleship to Lead World's Navies Commander Moffett Presents Daring Plan "Scrap the Navies of the World" by Building Ultimate Sea-Fighter "at Once" The length of the see-fighter planned by Commander Moffett would equal that of the Superdreadnought Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the battleship Oregon (BB-3).		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo courtesy of The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 27 October 1916, Final Edition, Image 22, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	736k	BATTLESHIP FLEET ARRIVING FOR FOOTBALL GAME Advance guard of the Atlantic fleet as it steamed up New York Day to-day. The ships are in the following order: New York (BB-34), Texas (BB-35), Oklahoma (BB-37), Connecticut (BB-18), Florida (BB-30), Utah (BB-31) and Wyoming (BB-32). The photograph was taken as the battleships passed the Battery, and shows the Statue of Liberty in the background.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo courtesy of The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 24 November 1916, Final Edition, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	731k	ACTIVITY ON BATTLESHIPS AT LEAGUE ISLAND At times like this when war looms up as a possibility, the Navy Yard is quickly responsive and the work of preparing for an immediate eventuality begins. The photograph shows Jackie's carrying supplies aboard one of the sea fighters.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo courtesy of Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 2 February 1917, Night Extra, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	353k	SOME MASTER MINDS OF OUR DREADNOUGHT FLEET		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Sun. (New York, [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 25 February 1917, Section 4 Pictorial Magazine, Image 37, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
01ladies	NR	SOCIETY WOMEN IN AUTOS TOUR CITY FOR RECRUITS Ten squads are canvassing all sections in an effort to drum up enlistments for the battleships at the Navy Yard. In the picture, Miss Nancy Coleman is at the wheel of the auto, with Chief Quartermaster Smith sitting beside her. The other women occupants are widely known in Philadelphia society.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo courtesy of Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 09 April 1917, Sports Extra, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	904k	AIR NEWEST DEFENCE OF DREADNOUGHTS Latest American Battleships Equipped With System of Protection Against Torpedoes Which Is Expected to Make Them Nearly Unsinkable by U-Boat Attacks The Device Already Put to Practical Test in Saving Wrecked Steamships.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 06 May 1917, Section 5 Special Feature Supplement, Image 45, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	414k	LEISURE HOURS OF OUR FIGHTING SAILORS Work & Play Are So Intermingled That Our Bluejackets Cannot Grow Dull Noon hour aboard a dreadnought. A boxing match with music by the ship's band. These attractions are sure to draw a crowd. Plenty of time to swap yarns, keep up with the news or to loll about carefree, just as the spirit moves. Recruits in their off hours ponder upon the splendid service of which they are a part.		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Sun. (New York, [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 20 May 1917, Section 4 Pictorial Magazine, Image 35, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	536k	HOW THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE IS BEING GUARDED AGAINST SUBMARINES American battleships of the Atlantic Fleet and units of the mosquito fleet. This picture was taken just before the strict censorship against photographs showing the movements of the fleet was put into force following the declaration of war against Germany. It shows, however, how the Atlantic coast is being guarded against the depredations of hostile submarines. The swift mosquito fleet is very useful in running down and destroying submarine boats. The present location of our war vessels is known only to the navy department and their future movements will be....		Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ. Photo courtesy of Bisbee Daily Review. (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 02 May 1917, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	584k	RECRUITING STATION ON NOTED CORNER The Twenty-third street corner of the famous Flatiron building in New York converted into a recruiting station for the navy. The roof is modeled after the deck of a battleship, and two guns swing from a turret.		Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ. Photo from Tombstone Epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 20 May 1917, WEEKLY EDITION, Image 7, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	470k	General view of League Island Naval Yard at Philadelphia showing old battleships.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA Photo courtesy of Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 26 May 1917, Night Extra, Pictorial Section, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.09k	PREPARING U.S.S. RECRUIT FOR SERVICE IN HEART OF CITY Carpenters Building $10,000 Replica of Dreadnought in Union Square to Draw Men Into the Navy and Marine Corps. The Recruit was built in 1917 to promote enlistment in the Navy and Marines. Mayor John Purroy Mitchel vociferously supported the Allied war effort and in April 1917 noted that New York City's quota for the Navy was 2,000 but that the city had enlisted only 900. To promote enlistments, the Mayor's Committee on National Defense raised money to build the mock battleship, designed by Donn Barber and Jules Guerin, and presented it to the Navy on Memorial Day 1917. Olive Mitchel, the Mayor's wife, christened the ship with a bottle of champagne. Modeled after the Maine (BB-10), the 200 - by 40 - foot Recruit was made of gray-painted wood and tin, with a real searchlight, semaphore signals and one-pound guns. The 'land-ship' ultimately secured 25,000 enlistments in the Navy, and in 1920 was removed from Union Square. Mitchel was defeated in the elections of 1917, joined the Army Air Corps and was killed in a training accident the next year.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. & N.Y. Times, 1 December 1996, courtesy of Christopher Gray. Photo courtesy of New-York Tribune.(New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 27 May 1917, Image 25, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	486k	BATTLESHIP 'RECRUIT' IN UNION SQUARE AND HER CAPTAIN		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 31 May 1917, Final Edition, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
	96k	A mock-up of a one funneled battleship entitled Recruit, being built at Union Square, New York City, appropriately across the street from the Germania Building during WW I.		Digital ID # ggbain 24399v, LC-B2-4211-13. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	381k	Building the Recruit at Union Square.		Digital ID # ggbain 24400v, LC-B2-4211-14. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection & shorpy.com.
	511k	Christening party on Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24536, LC-B2-4228-10. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	261k	The Recruit anchored to the grass in at Union Square.		Digital ID # ggbain 25522v, LC-B2-4371-9. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	352k	Broadside view of the battleship Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24411v, LC-B2-4212-17. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	248k	Bow on view of Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24319v, LC-B2-4201-1. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	171k	Recruits on the deck of the Recruit. Note the flag.		Digital ID # ggbain 24624v, LC-B2-4238-3. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	126k	Camouflaging Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 27193v, LC-B2-4642-8. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	300k	A camouflaged Recruit in the Demonstration Garden near the Broadway marked subway at Union Square.		Digital ID # ggbain 27192v, LC-B2-4642-5. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	545k	Naval Reserves from Washington, D.C. standing en mass near recruitment poster that says: MEN WANTED FOR US NAVY - APPLY HERE, during WWI aboard the battleship Recruit.		Photographer: John Dominis, NARA FILE #: 019-N-11381 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 434, HD-SN-99-02093, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of life.time.com.
	105k	Navy life on the Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 26147v, LC-B2-4642-8. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	103k	Signing a Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24630v, LC-B2-4211-14. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	128k	Secretary of the Navy Daniels on the Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 26339v, LC-B2-4515-15. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	109k	Rookies on the Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24586v, LC-B2-4233-10. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	126k	Officers & crew on the Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24714v, LC-B2-4245-16a. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	817k	Mabel Garrison, coloratura soprano who appeared in the Metropolitan Opera from 1914 to 1921, makes a appearance with the crew of the Recruit.		Digital ID courtesy of mashable.com Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
	162k	Wash day on the Recruit.		Digital ID # ggbain 24568v, LC-B2-4232-3. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.
	500k	AT DRESS PARADE ON THE BATTLESHIP'S DECK THE MARINE MAKES A GALLANT APPEARANCE AS A SOLDIER OF THE SEA		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo courtesy of Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 11 June 1917, Sports Extra, Pictorial Section, Image 16 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	520k	To the left, cleaning house aboard the battleship Recruit. The land-going mascot shares in the excitement of being photographed.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by New-York Tribune., 24 June 1917, Page 7, Image 51, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	732k	HIGH SPOTS ON THE BATTLE FLEET		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo courtesy of The Sun. (New York, [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 24 June 1917, Section 7 Magazine Section, Image 33, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	29k	LOADING A GIFT FOR THE KAISER Above is shown a busy group of sailors placing a torpedo in the hold of an American battleship "some where in the Atlantic.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 10 July 1917, Night Extra, Pictorial Section, Image 18, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	447k	SUPPLIES FOR A BATTLESHIP'S CUPBOARD The most powerful naval force ever assembled under the Stars and Strips is now fully supplied and ready for battle. A Florida class (BB-30 / 31) battleship is in the background.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo by Evening Public Ledger.(Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 13 July 1917, Night Extra, Pictorial Section, Image 16, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	492k	COALING UNITED STATES WARSHIP FAR FROM HOME With a part of Uncle Sam's battleship fleets in foreign waters. The censor wouldn't permit much to be said about this picture.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 18 July 1917, Night Extra, Pictorial Section, Image 18, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	456k	Recruited mascots.		USN photo # LC-DIG-GGBAIN-26145, photographed by Detroit Publishing Company, 1898, courtesy of the Library of Congress, from the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, courtesy of flickr.com.
	788k	U. S. BATTLESHIP IN SMOKE SCREEN HIDES FROM U-BOAT How smokescreen helps protect a battleship. The ships of the Atlantic fleet which have been mobilized since the declaration of war, have began to use the smoke screen, developed some time ago in England, to hide them from submarines. This photograph shows a big ship of the fleet throwing out vast volumes of thick black smoke making it impossible for the submarine to locate her. A division is seen at muster in the foreground.		Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Ogden Standard. (Ogden City, Utah) 1913-1920, 22 August 1917, 4 P.M. CITY EDITION, Image 6, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	392k	Clean Men for Clean Shots		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 2 September 1917, Image 45, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	625k	I GET AROUND (No Offense to The Beach Boys) This photograph appeared in the The Washington Times.(Washington [D.C.]) edition of 16 April 1914, FINAL EDITION,AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS IN FIGHTING LINE Photograph of Uncle Sam's Big Warships In Line of Battle with the Powerful Twelve-inch Guns of the Virginia (BB-13) In the Foreground. The Picture Was Taken Outside Hampton Roads During the Recent Target Practice It also appears here three years later:" An unusual photograph of our first line of defence steaming full speed ahead with their guns trained to port on an imaginary fleet. This picture was taken looking aft from one of the superdreadnoughts of our battle fleet." Old news is good news.		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 16 September 1917, Image 45, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.24k	Sailors witnessing a motion picture show on a Virginia class battleship, October 1917.		Photo by Underwood & Underwood. National Archives Identifier:45512242 Local Identifier: 165-WW-332D-69. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	546k	FULLY EQUIPPED BATTLESHIP AMONG ATTRACTIONS AT SOCIETY CARNIVAL FOR SAILORS! SAILORS MAN MINIATURE WARSHIP AT VAN RENSSELAER ESTATE		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 06 October 1917, Night Extra, Image 12, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	561k	Captain Adams of the Good Ship Recruit, the land battleship in Union Square, speaks at the Minute Men's headquarters to potential recruits, New York, New York, 8 November 1917. The young woman, it was said, was so elated with the spirit of the men who chose to enlist that she bestowed a kiss on each of them. Many more would have enlisted had they known what was in store for them!.		Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images, courtesy of gettyimages.com.
	673k	BATTLESHIP 'RECRUIT' SNOWBOUND IN UNION SQUARE		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 14 December 1917, Final Edition, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
	582k	"SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC" IS THE NATION'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE THE GREAT BATTLESHIP FLEET. DAY AND NIGHT THE CREWS ARE BEING DRILLED TO MEET ANY EMERGENCY. THIS UNUSUAL WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS ONLY ONE DIVISION STEAMING IN COLUMN FORMATION.		Photo by E. Mueller Jr. Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo from The Sun. (New York, [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 30 December 1917, Section 4 Pictorial Magazine, Image 44, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

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