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Photo # NH 100336:  Great White Fleet battleships in Sydney Harbor, Australia, August 1908

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1900s

World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909
-- Views in Sydney Harbor, Australia, August 1908


This page features views concerning the "Great White Fleet" in Sydney Harbor, Australia in August 1908.

For more images related to this subject, see:

  • -- Visit to Sydney, Australia, August 1908.

    For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 100336

    "Great White Fleet" Cruise around the World, 1907-1909


    Battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in Sydney harbor, New South Wales, Australia in August 1908.
    In the foreground are the 6"/40 broadside guns of USS Wisconsin (Battleship # 9). USS Ohio (Battleship # 12) is in the right background, and USS Missouri (Battleship # 11) is in the center distance.
    Photo printed on a stereograph card, published by the Rose Stereograph Co., Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London.

    Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 565 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100336-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 80KB; 675 x 400 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100337

    "Great White Fleet" Cruise around the World, 1907-1909


    Battleships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. USS Kearsarge (Battleship # 5) is in the center, with USS Kentucky (Battleship # 6) beyond.
    The original photograph was published on a stereograph card by the Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London.

    Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 120KB; 565 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 100337-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 86KB; 675 x 400 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41510

    USS Connecticut
    (Battleship # 18)

    Crowd of local people on board the ship, in Sydney harbor, New South Wales, Australia during the "Great White Fleet"'s visit, August 1908.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 440 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41507

    Governor's Barge


    In Sydney harbor, New South Wales, Australia during the "Great White Fleet"'s visit, August 1908.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41506

    Sydney harbor, New South Wales, Australia


    Photographed during the "Great White Fleet"'s visit, in August 1908.
    The large British cruiser at left is HMS Powerful (completed 1897). See Photo # NH 41506-A for an image cropped from this view to emphasize that ship.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 900 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41506-A

    HMS Powerful
    (British Protected Cruiser, 1897)

    In Sydney harbor, New South Wales, Australia during the "Great White Fleet"'s visit there in August 1908.
    This image is cropped from Photo # NH 41506.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     


    For more images related to this subject, see:

  • -- Visit to Sydney, Australia, August 1908.

    For further pictorial coverage of the "Great White Fleet":

  • World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", December 1907 - February 1909 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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