Photo #: NH 73127
USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8)
View looking aft at her forward eight-inch gun turret and bridge,
while she was steaming on the target range in Manila Bay, Philippine
Islands, circa 1906.
Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member, who presented it to
F.M. Deats with the following poem inscribed on its reverse:
"I hold the thunder, flame is my breath
Monstrous I swim, swollen with death
All man's achievements centered in me
At the crown of his knowledge, I blast the sea"
Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 73128
USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8)
Breech of one of the ship's four 8"/40 guns, circa 1906.
Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member, who inscribed on its
reverse: "T'was on this gun I qualified as Heavy Gun Pointer
1st Class".
This gun is marked, at the top of the breech face:
"U.S. Naval Gun Factory W.N.Y."
"8 in. Gun Mark V No. 98"
Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 73129
USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8)
Breech end of one of the ship's fourteen 6"/50 broadside
guns and the interior of its casemate, circa 1906.
Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member.
Note the shell rack in the right background, and the wooden pail
on deck.
Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 73130
USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8)
Shell rack in the casemate of one of the ship's fourteen 6"/50
broadside guns, circa 1906.
Photographed by F.B. Way, a crew member.
Note the gun cleaning tool on the bulkhead, above the shells,
the wooden pail on deck, and the steam heat radiator at right.
Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 50378
USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8)
Officers and crew members pose with a record target shot by the
ship's six-inch gun battery, in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands,
2 February 1907.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 64810
USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8)
Signalmen at work, circa 1908.
Among the activities seen are reading and recording signals (left),
semaphore signalling (left center) and hoisting signal flags.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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