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Photo # NH 63139:  USS Ohio on trials in San Francisco Bay, California, 26 July 1904

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Ohio (Battleship # 12, later BB-12), 1904-1923

USS Ohio, a 12,500-ton Maine class battleship, was built at at San Francisco, California. She was commissioned in October 1904 and served along the West Coast until April 1905, when she steamed across the Pacific to become flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. She returned to the United States in 1907 and, late in that year, began an epic cruise around the World with other battleships of the "Great White Fleet". After the this voyage ended in February 1909, Ohio was modernized, trading her white and buff color scheme for a drab, but more practical, grey and receiving the first of what ultimately would be two "basket masts". She thereafter was primarily stationed in the Atlantic, where she served with combat forces and on training duty. In 1914, the battleship participated in the occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, and the next year transited the Panama Canal to visit the Pacific Coast.

After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Ohio was employed as a training ship, based at Norfolk, Virginia. Soon after the conflict's end she briefly served as a troop transport, then was in reserve status at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Classified BB-12 in mid-1920, in September of that year she was involved in salvage attempts on the sunken submarine S-5. USS Ohio was decommissioned at the end of May 1922 and sold for scrapping in March 1923.

This page features selected views concerning USS Ohio (Battleship # 12, later BB-12).


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Photo #: NH 63139

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

On trials in San Francisco Bay, California, 26 July 1904.
In the left distance is the ex-USS Omaha (1872-1915), quarantine ship in San Francisco Bay.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 60224

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

Drydocked at Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, on 19 July 1904.
Photographed by Turrill & Miller, San Francisco.

Donation of the Society of California Pioneers.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44461

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

At anchor off San Francisco, California, circa 1904-1905.
A U.S. Army transport is in the left distance.
Photographed by Turrill & Miller, San Francisco.

Donation of the Society of California Pioneers.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-12820

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

Flying a long "homeward bound" pennant, probably upon her return to the United States after duty in Asiatic waters, 1907.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 101510

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

At anchor in 1909, soon after receiving her "cage" foremast.
Photographed by Brown & Shaffer.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-2-16-19

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

Underway off New York City, on 3 July 1911.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 90358

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

Underway in 1913.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.

Collection of Captain F.R. Naile, USN. Donated by Mrs. Whitney Ashbridge.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82269

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

Passing the Cucaracha Slide, while transiting the Panama Canal on 16 July 1915.
She appears to be under tow.

Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 133KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 59443

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

In Dry Dock # 2 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1915.
USS Newport (Gunboat # 12) is also in the dry dock, astern of Ohio. Ship in the right background is USS Raleigh (Cruiser # 8).

Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1932.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: 19-N-1998

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

At anchor, circa 1918, following World War I alterations.
Note that some of her casemate six-inch guns have been removed.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 600 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 101467

USS Ohio
(Battleship # 12)

12"/40 guns of the ship's forward gun turret, photographed circa 1907-1908.
Note Sailors strolling on deck; bell mounted on the pilothouse face; and 3-pounder guns mounted on the superstructure.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 101494

The "Great White Fleet" transits the Suez Canal, January 1909


Battleships of the fleet nearing Port Said, Egypt, circa 5-6 January 1909, as they approached the Mediterranean Sea during the final months of their cruise around the World.
USS Ohio (Battleship # 12) is in the right center.

Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41808

USS S-5
(SS-110)

Navy tug alongside the partially sunken submarine's stern, while initial salvage operations were underway, in early September 1920.
The battleship Ohio (BB-12), which attempted to tow S-5 into shallower water, is in the background.

Donation of Ellis J. Altman, 1938.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 


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