Photo #: NH 55011
USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Photographed circa 1908.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 55009
USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Underway in San Pablo Bay, California, 1909.
Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 94938
USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
In San Diego harbor, California, circa 1910-1914.
Photographed by the Arcade View Company.
Courtesy of Captain Don Fink, 1983.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 55013
USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Photographed 28 January 1915, while serving as flagship of the
Pacific Fleet.
Her name had been changed from California on 1 September
1914.
Note two-star Rear Admiral's flag flying from her mainmast top.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92174
USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Off Guaymas, Mexico, 26 December 1915.
Photographed by Hopkins.
Note Christmas tree mounted on her forecastle.
Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92175
USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Photographed from an airplane in San Diego harbor, California,
28 March 1916.
Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 55012-KN (Color)
USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Painting by Francis Muller, 1920.
It depicts the ship sinking off Fire Island, New York, after
she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-156, 19 July
1918.
Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 82997
USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser No. 6)
Crew exercising one of the ship's 6"/50 broadside guns,
circa 1916.
Note: gunsight in use; items posted on the bulkhead in the upper
right, including safety orders, pennant bearing the ship's name,
and "Modern Girl" poem.
Collection of Chief Warrant Officer J.B. Dofflemeyer, 1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 83793
Admiral William B. Caperton, USN,
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (center)
With members of his staff on board USS San Diego (Armored
Cruiser No. 6) at San Diego, California, circa 1916-17.
The ship's after eight-inch gun turret is behind them.
Those present are (from left to right):
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) H.M. Lammers, USN;
Captain R.M. Cutts, USMC;
Medical Inspector E.S. Bogert, USN;
Admiral Caperton;
Pay Inspector J. Fyffe, USN;
Lieutenant A.T. Beauregard, USN; and
Paymaster C.S. Baker, USN.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Adm.
W.B. Caperton.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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