I have always enjoyed looking at old photographs. When I talk to others they seem to like it also. So here are some old panoramic photographs courtesy of the U.S. Navy.
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Panoramic photograph of the ships' Officers & Crew, taken looking aft from her forecastle on 10 February 1903. Maine's Commanding Officer, Captain Eugene H.C. Leutze, is standing just to the left of the 12"/40 gun in the center of the photo. Standing beside Capt. Leutze, to the left, is Lieutenant Commander Thomas S. Rodgers.
Note items in the foreground, including the capstain, anchor chain, and a pontoon raft. This was not the Maine that was sunk in Havana Bay. A second Maine Battleship was begun in 1899 and launched in 1901. |
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Panoramic view of shipways and outfitting area, 1900.
USS Wisconsin (Battleship # 9) is fitting out at left. Ships on the ways are (from left to right):
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10);
USS Perry (Destroyer # 11);
USS Wyoming (Monitor # 10);
USS Ohio (Battleship # 12); and the
S.S. Californian. |
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Submarines and their crews at Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1914
These boats are (from front to back): USS F-4 (SS-23), USS F-2 (SS-21), USS F-3 (SS-22) and USS F-1 (SS-20).
The U.S. Army Transport Dix is in the background.
Note the "fish" flags and 13-star "boat" ensigns flown by these submarines.
Photographed by Noggle. |
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Band of the Receiving Ship, Washington Navy Yard, D.C.
Photographed 10 August 1918.
Bandmaster is S. Totino. |
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USS Thatcher (Destroyer # 162)
At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 14 January 1919.
Panoramic photograph by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, # 11 Portland Street, Boston. |
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USS Black Arrow (ID # 3913)
Ship's Officers and Crew on deck, 1919.
Panoramic photograph by the Taylor Studio, Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Atlantic Fleet at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, 1920
Panoramic photograph by Schutz, Washington, D.C.
USS Aroostook (CM-3) is just offshore. beyond the palm trees in the right center of the image. |
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USS Bush (Destroyer # 166)
At Boston, Massachusetts on 20 February 1919, the day after she went into commission.
Panoramic photograph, taken by Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston.
Note the open pilothouse structure on this destroyer. |
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Panoramic photograph, taken on the ships' foredecks while they were moored in San Diego Harbor, California, 10 January 1920.
Taken by O.A. Tunnell, San Diego.
Ships are, from left to right:
- USS Rizal (Destroyer # 174);
USS Renshaw (Destroyer # 176);
USS O'Bannon (Destroyer # 177);
USS Hogan (Destroyer # 178); and
USS MacKenzie (Destroyer # 175).
Note signalmen making semaphore signals from atop the ship's pilothouses.
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USS Henderson (AP-1)
At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 23 March 1921.
Panoramic photograph by Crosby, 324 First Street, Portsmouth, Virginia.
Collection of Lawrence E. Archambeault, Sr. Donated by his son, George R. Archambeault, September 1987. |
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Airship LZ-126
Enters the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, for the first time after her flight across the Atlantic from Germany, 15 October 1924. Following delivery to the U.S. Navy, she became USS Los Angeles (ZR-3).
Panoramic photograph by Clements. |
Well I learned something here today. I didn't know that we had built another battleship named the Maine just year after the first one was sunk. You learn so much researching some of these articles. Over the years I have found out a lot of things that I didn't know. Maybe that is why I enjoy writing these articles. I always did enjoy finding out new things.
Did you notice that those submarines from 1914 don't look too old fashioned? Notice that there was a destroyer in 1919 named the Bush? The family goes way back in the government. Notice the size of the hanger they had to build to hold that huge air ship.
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