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Photo # NH 67888:  Navy personnel pose with USS Tennessee's bow decoration, erected as a monument at Nashville, Tennessee.

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USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), 1906-1916,
Renamed Memphis, 1916 --
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  • USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), 1906-1916. Renamed Memphis in 1916.


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    Photo #: NH 67887

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Ship's bow decoration on display in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, where it was erected as a monument. This large decoration was removed from the ship in about 1909.

    Courtesy of Milton von Mann, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67888

    USS Tennessee
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Navy personnel pose with the ship's bow decoration in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, where it was erected as a monument. This large decoration was removed from the ship in about 1909.

    Courtesy of Milton von Mann, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99952-KN (color)

    USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Front cover of a booklet on the ship's cruise around South America with the United States Section of the International High Commission on board, in March-May 1916.
    Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo headed the delegation and Captain Edward L. Beach was the ship's Commanding Officer.
    The booklet was produced on board Tennessee by Navy Printer W.J. Butler and H.F. Lynn.
    The booklet's back cover is reproduced as Photo # NH 99952-A-KN.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear Admiral William B. Caperton.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 121KB; 480 x 7656 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99952-A-KN (color)

    USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Back cover of a booklet on the ship's cruise around South America with the United States Section of the International High Commission on board, in March-May 1916.
    Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo headed the delegation and Captain Edward L. Beach was the ship's Commanding Officer.
    The booklet was produced on board Tennessee by Navy Printer W.J. Butler and H.F. Lynn.
    The booklet's front cover is reproduced as Photo # NH 99952-KN.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear Admiral William B. Caperton.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 480 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99946

    USS Memphis
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Air port salvaged from the ship's wreck after she was driven ashore by a tidal wave at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 29 August 1916.
    By letter of 17 October 1917 Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels offered this object to the ship's Sponsor, Mrs. R.N. (Annie Keith Frazier) Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, as a possible momento. See Photo # NH 99947 for a photograph of that letter.

    Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99947

    USS Memphis
    (Armored Cruiser # 10)

    Letter of 17 October 1917 from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, offering an air port from the ship to the her Sponsor, Mrs. R.N. (Annie Keith Frazier) Somerville, founder of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, as a possible momento. See Photo # NH 99946 for a photograph of the air port offered in this letter.

    Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 128KB; 570 x 765 pixels

     


    For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10), 1906-1916. Renamed Memphis in 1916.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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