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THE UNITED STATES MUST BUILD MORE MEN-OF-WAR
Proposed Increase Through an Expenditure of $250.000.000 Is None Too Great to Maintain the Nation's Place Among the Powers. | Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA.
Photo from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 06 May 1900, Image 26 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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THE BEACH AT FORE RIVER, WHERE THE NEW-JERSEY (BB-16) IS TO BE BUILT.
Showing the Des Moines, now in course of construction. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from New-York Tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 15 September 1901, Image 17 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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BIG CRUISER DES MOINES BEGINS CAREER BY GLIDING INTO MASSACHUSETTS BAY
YOUNG LADY OF DES MOINES. IOWA. WHO SAID, "I CHRISTEN THEE DES MOINES" AND BROKE THE TRADITIONAL BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE AS THE VALUABLE ADDITION TO THE UNITED STATES NAVY WAS SLIDING FROM THE WAYS YESTERDAY AT QUINCY, MASS. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 21 September 1902, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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LAUNCHING OF THE MOST PERFECT OF MODERN SHIPS OF WAR | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 21 September 1902, Section Two, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Looking Under the "Des Moines" Along Her Bilge Keel, Showing the Wooden Sheathing Ready for the Copper Bottom. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 21 September 1902, Section Two, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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New Cruiser Des Moines, Protector of Commerce
A radicical departure was made from the previous practice of the Navy department
when, on March 3, Congress authorised the building of six new cruisers of the Des Moines class which should in every respect be up to date & fit all
the requirements of the new American navy. | Image and text provided by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE.
Photo from Omaha Daily Bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 21 September 1902, Image 38 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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CRUISER IS WEDDED TO WAVES
The Des Moines is Launched Saturday at Fore River Shipyard.
Miss Elsie Macomber of Des Moines with Governor Cummins of Iowa and Mayor Brenton of Des Moines standing by her side, smashed the traditional bottle of champagne against the steel prow of the cruiser.
Miss Clara N. Carleton of Haverhill, Mass.,cut the ropes which held the last keel block and started the ship sideways. | Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Iowa.
Photo from Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 23 September 1902, Image 9, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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How a Growing Warship Looks to a Landsman
GANTRY CRANE STEPPING A CRUISER'S STACKS.
The "Strong Right Arm" of the Fore River Shipyard Putting the Final Touches on the Des Moines. | Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA.
Photo from The Times Dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 28 June 1903, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 25 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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CRUISER DES MOINES American Warship Sent to Key West, Where It Will Be Held in Readiness in Case of Trouble in Cuba. | Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Iowa.
Photo from Iowa State Bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 14 September 1906, Image 2 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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DES MOINES port side view at anchor, circa 1904-30. | Photo NH 67678 courtesy of history.navy.mil
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Post card photo of the USS Des Moines. Caption of
the card reads: USS Des Moines at anchor, Tompkinsville, N.Y. Post
card published by the American News Company New York. |
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DES MOINES starboard view on a coolish day, circa 1909. | Detroit Publishing Company photo, Call Number: LC-D4-22584
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-det-4a16076 courtesy of loc.gov
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CRUISER DES MOINES WHICH IS BEING RUSHED TO PORT LIMON |
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Photo from New-York Tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 19 November 1909, Image 1 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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United States Cruiser Des Moines Rushes to Venezuela; Castro on Warpath Again | Image and text provided by University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE.
Photo from Evening Journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 04 August 1913, Image 1 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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CRUISER DES MOINES IN MEXICAN WATERS
The cruiser Des Moines is one of Uncle Sam's warships now in Mexican waters. This vessel, together with the Chester, Dolphin, San Francisco, Prairie and Hancock, at Tampico, has a total landing force of 2,500 Marines. | Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ.
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Arizona Republican.[volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 21 April 1914, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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REFUGEES ON THE DES MOINES OFF TAMPICO
In the above illustration are shown the first photographs of American refugees on board the United States cruiser Des Moines, at Tampico. Women and children were the first to be taken on board, and their happy, smiling countenances indicate that they feel absolutely safe under Uncle Sam's protecting arm. | Image and text provided by University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Photo from The Birmingham Age-Herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 26 April 1914, SPORTING SECTION, Image 20 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Reported Attacks on Our Oil Ships Impose New Tasks on Ambassador Penfield
With the reported sinking of the American oil steamer Commuumipaw, later found to be safe, and the reported attack on the oil tank ship Petrolite, presumably by an Austrian submarine or Austrian submarines, came a new tension in Austro-Hungariun-Americau relations, already tautened by the Ancona station. In Vienna our interests are in the hands of Ambassador Frederic C. Penfield. The pictures show also the cruiser Des Moines, now in the Mediterranean, which reported the attack on the Petrolite, and an American oil tank steamer. | Image and text provided by Alaska State Library Historical Collections.
Photo from The Seward Gateway.(Seward, Alaska) 1914-1917, 29 December 1915, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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ONLY U. S. WARSHIP IN EUROPEAN WATERS
U. S. cruiser Des Moines | Image and text provided by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ.
Photo from Arizona Republican.[volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 24 February 1917, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Machine gun practice on USS Des Moines,. circa 1917-18.
Photographer: E. Muller, New York, N.Y. | Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
National Archives Identifier:45510735
Local ID: 165-WW-324C-23
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AMERICAN WAR VESSELS IN RUSSIAN WATERS
The cruiser Des Moines, assisted by three Eagle boats are the American part of the Allied force which is stationed off the Murman coast awaiting developments in Russia. The ships are fully equipped with rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and trench material should it be necessary to land men for fighting on shore. Our photo shows the vessels in anchor "mid the ice" of the White Sea. | Image and text provided by Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT
Photo from The Bridgeport Times And Evening Farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 13 August 1919, Image 14, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
