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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15), 1906-1923
USS Georgia, a 14,948-ton Virginia class battleship
built at Bath, Maine, was commissioned in September 1906. She
soon became a unit of the Atlantic Fleet, participating in routine
operations and, in June 1907, in the Jamestown Exposition's naval
review. The following month, while engaged in gunnery exercises,
she suffered a turret accident that took the lives of ten of her
crew. In December 1907, Georgia left Hampton Roads, Virginia,
with other Atlantic Fleet battleships to begin the World cruise
of the "Great White Fleet". She visited ports in the
West Indies, South America, Mexico, the U.S. west coast, the western
Pacific, Asia and the Mediterranean before returning to Hampton
Roads in February 1909.
Georgia was updated after this voyage, receiving many
improvements, including "cage" masts in place of her
original "military" models. Her normal Atlantic Fleet
activities were punctuated by a trans-Atlantic trip to Europe
in 1910-11, a Naval Academy training cruise in mid-1913 and intervention
operations in troubled Mexico and Haiti in 1914. While out of
commission in 1916-17, Georgia served as receiving ship
at Boston, Massachusetts.
Recommissioned in April 1917, Georgia was employed on
training duties during most of the First World War, shifting to
convoy escort missions in September 1918. Late in the year, she
began six months' of transport
service, bringing almost 6000 U.S. servicemen home from France
in five voyages. In July 1919, the battleship transited the Panama
Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. She was placed out of commission
at Mare Island, California, in June 1920. Receiving the hull number
BB-15 later in that month, Georgia remained inactive until
November 1923, when she was sold for scrapping.
This page features, and provides links to, views concerning USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15).
For more images related to this ship, see:
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15) -- Part II.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 53720
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Making 17.707 knots on Run # 9 of her trials, 13 June 1906.
Note that her six-inch broadside guns have not yet been installed.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 73911
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Photographed by C.E. Waterman, 1907.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 73KB; 900 x 325 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 53722
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Off Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 June 1909, after modernization
with "cage" masts.
Photographed by William H. Rau.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 60230
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Photographed circa 1912, probably in New York harbor.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53723
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Dressed with flags and with crew members manning the rails, during
the Naval Review in New York Harbor, October 1912.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 535 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 67665
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15)
Photographed circa 1919.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 45052
Pacific Fleet Battleships
Tied up at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in the Spring
of 1920.
Ships are (from left-center foreground to right-center distance):
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15);
USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17);
USS Vermont (Battleship # 20) and
USS Nebraska (Battleship # 14).
Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1932.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 570 pixels |
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For more images related to this ship, see:
USS Georgia (Battleship # 15, later BB-15) -- Part II.
NOTES:
To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here
are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded
and used for any purpose.
Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines
citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center".
Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval
History and Heritage Command".
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Page made 31 August 2001
New image added and page divided 27 February 2010