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Photo # NH 46895:  USS Huntington steaming through heavy seas while transporting troops home from France, 1919.

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Huntington, formerly West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5, later CA-5) --
On Board and Close Up Views, taken in 1918 and Later


This page features all the views we have taken on board and close to USS Huntington (formerly West Virginia) during 1918 and later.

For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5, later CA-5), 1905-1930. Renamed Huntington 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 41726

    Sinking of S.S. Lucia
    , 17 October 1918

    Lucia's First Mate is brought on board USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5).
    The stern of Huntington's motor launch is visible below him.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41729

    Sinking of S.S. Lucia
    , 17 October 1918

    Some of the ship's survivors on the foredeck of USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5).
    Many of those present appear to be Huntington crew members.
    Note the camouflage painted on the side of the cruiser's forward eight-inch gun turret, at right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 415 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46895

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    "Bucking the big ones": steaming through heavy seas while transporting troops home from France, 1919.

    Courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Ellis M. Zacharias, USN, 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104124

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5)

    "The Spray Line": Troops (with blanket rolls) on the ship's after deck, en route from Europe to the United States, 11 March 1919.
    Photographed by "S & H" (probably Sponagle & Haynie).
    The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock. Its reverse side bears the following hand written note: "O.E. Coventy came home on this boat."

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46893

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    Troops of the 356th Infantry exercising on the ship's quarterdeck, during their passage home from France, circa May 1919.

    Courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Ellis M. Zacharias, USN, 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46891

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5, ex-West Virginia)

    Divine services on the ship's quarterdeck in 1919, while she was transporting troops home from France.
    Note the canvas spread between the gun barrels of Huntington's after eight-inch gun turret.

    Courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Ellis M. Zacharias, USN, 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103576

    USS Huntington
    (Armored Cruiser # 5)

    Troops of the "Middle West Division" crowd the ship's after deck, while homeward bound from France in 1919.
    The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     


    For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5, later CA-5), 1905-1930. Renamed Huntington 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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    Page made 16 September 2006
    New image added 9 December 2006