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Photo # NH h84210:  USS Maryland being prepared for launching at Newport News, Virginia, circa 12 September 1903.

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8), 1905-1930 --
Views taken in 1909 and Earlier (Part II)


This page features more views showing USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8) in 1909 and before, when the ship was fitted with two military masts.

For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8, later CA-8), 1905-1930. Renamed Frederick in November 1916 -- Selected Views.


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

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

    Photo #: NH 84210

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Being prepared for launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, on or shortly before 12 September 1903.
    Note that portholes have not yet been drilled in her hull plating.

    Courtesy of Mary M. Galt, 1976.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93710

    USS Maryland
    (Armored Cruiser # 8)

    Launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 12 September 1903.
    Halftone reproduction, published on a postal card by Mrs. Alice W. Morton.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100748-KN (color)

    Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
    Newport News, Virginia

    Photograph of the shipyard's waterfront, showing warships fitting out circa mid-1904, published on a color-tinted postal card by the Detroit Publishing Company.
    USS Virginia (Battleship # 13) is in the foreground. Those in the left background are USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) and USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8), one with four smokestacks installed and the other with three.
    Note the large number of sailing vessels in the right distance, and the message (dated 15 October 1906) written in the card's margins.

    Courtesy of Carter Rila, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     


    The ship seen in the following images is either USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8) or her virtually identical sister, USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5):

    Photo #: NH 101234-KN (color)

    Pennsylvania Class Armored Cruiser

    Photograph taken circa 1905-1908, and published on a color-tinted postal card by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, California.
    This ship is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8). Despite the identification printed on the original postal card, it is certainly NOT USS Tennessee (Armored Cruiser # 10).

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103794

    U.S. Navy armored cruiser


    In a harbor, circa 1905.
    This ship is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8). Note that her broadside six-inch gun battery does not appear to have been installed.

    Donation of the Boston National Historical Park (Charlestown Navy Yard), 1979-1980.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103795

    U.S. Navy armored cruiser


    In a harbor, circa 1905.
    This ship is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8). Note that her broadside six-inch gun battery does not appear to have been installed.

    Donation of the Boston National Historical Park (Charlestown Navy Yard), 1979-1980.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 71780

    U.S. Navy armored cruiser


    Steaming at sea, circa 1909.
    This ship is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8).

    Courtesy of Mrs. D.M. Corn, in memory of Dr. K.L. Rosencrance, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     


    For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8, later CA-8), 1905-1930. Renamed Frederick in November 1916 -- Selected Views.


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


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