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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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