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KEEL FOR MONTANA
Will be Laid Some Time This Week
Actual Construction of Both New Cruisers Started in Three Months After Sigining of Contract. Frames For the North Carolina (ACR 12) Ready | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA.
Photo from Daily Press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 23 April 1905, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Montana's Maiden Plunge Virginia Girl As Sponsor
MISS MINNIE CONRAD Who Christened the Montana at Newport News Today | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 15 December 1906, Last Edition, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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General Plans for Montana (ACR 13) as prepared by Portsmouth Navy Yard. |
Ed Zajkowski |
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Starboard side view while underway during Builders Trials, 21 March 1908.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18545 |
Darryl Baker |
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Starboard side view while underway during Builders Trials, 21 March 1908.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18549 |
Mike Green |
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SILVER FOR NEW CRUISER
Service from Montana People to Boat Named for State on View
PUNCH BOWL BELONGING TO THE SILVER SERVICE OF TEN PIECES. SOON TO BE PRESENTED TO THE UNITED STATES ARMORED CRUISER MONTANA BY THE PEOPLE OF THAT STATE. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from New-York Tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 30 March 1908, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Two for T (Part 1)
The letters ANA spell out part of the Montana's (ACR 13) name on her bridge in this port broadside photo, 1908.
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Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
Series: Photographs of American Military Activities
National Archives Identifier: 55171614
Local ID: 111-SC-41478
Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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Two for T (Part 2)
The letters MON spell out part of the Montana's (ACR 13) name on her bridge in this starboard broadside photo at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during Founders' Week, 1908.
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Photo courtesy of history.navy.mil |
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Starboard broadside of the Montana (ACR !3) underway ca. 1912-1915. Location is unknown (caption updated by Evan Dwyer).
Library of Congress, LC-D4-22806 |
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Montana (ACR !3) (left) and North Carolina (ACR 12) (right), moored at Norfolk Navy Yard on 26 October 1908. Note that Montana is still painted in her original White and Buff colors while the North Carolina has reverted back to Gray, as is the rest of the fleet.
Historic Norfolk Navy Yard Glass Plate Collection, #607 |
© Marcus W. Robbins - NNSY History Matters |
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Starboard quarter view while at anchor, ca 1908-1909. Note that the hull was painted all gray prior to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in 1909 (caption updated by Evan Dwyer). |
Mike Hughes |
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Port side view while underway, ca 1908-1909. Note that the hull was painted all gray prior to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in 1909 (caption updated by Evan Dwyer). |
Darryl Baker |
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Montana (ACR 13) sails along in a pastoral scene, 1908-15.
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Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-det-4a16090
Call Number: LC-D4-22598
Photo courtesy of Detroit Publishing Company via Mikes Green & Mohl. |
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Montana (ACR 13) at anchor in the Hudson River ca. 1909
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Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-det-4a16259
Call Number: LC-D4-22785
Photo courtesy of Detroit Publishing Company via Mikes Green & Mohl. |
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Montana (ACR !3) entering Havana Harbor
on 11 April 1910.
Library of Congress digital ID pan.6a23452.
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Mike Green |
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Commander Francis L. Chadwick, Commanding Officer. |
Laird Chadwick |
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Montana shifted to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet on 26 July 1911, for a major overhaul at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., until 11 November 1912.
Montana is seen here on 4 May 1912.
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Text courtesy of DANFS.
Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs
File Unit: Navy - Ships - Cruisers
National Archives Identifier: 45512937
Local ID: 165-WW-335D-9
Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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4 May 1912, possibly Portsmouth Maine.
National Archives item #165-WW-335D-11 |
National Archives |
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Armored Cruisers Tennessee (ACR 8) and Montana Will Leave Philadelphia at Once With Marines for Turkey | Image and text provided by University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
Photo from Evening Journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 12 November 1912, Image 13, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Starboard bow view of Montana (ACR !3) underway ca. 1914. Courtesy of D.M. McPherson.
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 84170. |
Mike Green |
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Montana (ACR !3) homeward bound with the dead from Vera Cruz, Mexico in April, 1914. Courtesy of Chaplain C.H. Dickens.
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 45988. |
Mike Green |
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Soldiers and sailors from the Montana (ACR 13) at Pier A, The Battery, New York City, before the National Memorial Service on 11 May 1914. Montana brought the bodies of the 17 Marines and Sailors that were killed during the battles within the city of Vera Cruz, to the Navy Yard in New York City for a memorial service and to return the remains to their families. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, May 11, 1914) (Caption correction identified by William K. Boone Canovas)
Photo #LC-DIG-ggbain-16190, Library of Congress
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Bill Gonyo |
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military dead from Veracruz, 11 May 1914. | Photo # LC-B2-3085-8 courtesy of loc.gov
PDF from New York Times. "Veracruz Dead Here on Warship." 11 May 1914 via phillyhistory.org.
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acr1327 | 1.20k | Flag draped caskets on the Montana (ACR-13) at Pier A, New York City before the National Memorial Service on May 11, 1914, in honor of the seamen and marines who were killed in Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, 11 May 1914 | Photo # LC-B2-3138-2 courtesy of loc.gov |
acr1323 | 1.56k | Flag draped caskets on the Montana (ACR-13) at Pier A, New York City before the National Memorial Service on May 11, 1914, in honor of the seamen and marines who were killed in Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, 11 May 1914 | Photo # LC-USZ62-49085 courtesy of loc.gov |
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Montana underway in inland waters, 1917.
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Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs
File Unit: Navy - Ships - Cruisers
National Archives Identifier: 45512939
Local ID: 165-WW-335D-10
Photographer: Committee of Public Information-J. Mueller, Jr., courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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MONTANA WOMEN MAKING WOOLENS FOR THE TARS
Hundreds of Women in Many Cities Are Knitting for Sailors Aboard the Cruiser Montana and the Gunboat Helena.
Eugene Carroll of the Navy League Receives Word From Naval Officials-Outlining Needs of the Sailormen.
Coxswain D. L. Cook, one of the local naval recruiting officers, is posing in the first woolen costume made in Butte for the fighting boys of the armored cruiser Montana. The costume consists of helmet, jacket, muffler, wristlets. | Image and text provided by Montana Historical Society; Helena, MT.
Photo from The Butte Daily Post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 02 June 1917, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Montana in camoflauge, 1918.
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Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs
File Unit: Navy - Ships - Cruisers
National Archives Identifier: 55242082
Local ID: 111-SC-41478
Enrique Mueller, Jr., courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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Band playing on cruiser Charleston (Cruiser No. 22) greeting Montana as she docks with troops from France, 1919.
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Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs
File Unit: Demobilization - Arrivals Home
Local ID: 165-WW-139A-43
Photographer: Western Newspaper Union, courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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Seattle,
Charlotte,
and Missoula in Reserve at Bremerton, Washington sometime between
1919 and 1924. |
Chris Glaeser |
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Missoula (center) with her sister ships Huron
and Charlotte at Puget Sound Navy
Yard sometime between 1927 and 1930, when they were sold for scrap in
accordance with the provisions of the London Treaty for the limitation
and reduction of naval armament. |
Tom Totoris |
