#builder's trials

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On her eleventh run of her standardization trial, USS TEXAS (BB-35) obtained the speed of 16.957 knots (19.513 mph, 31.404 kph).

Photographed on October 23, 1913.

NARA: 496081275

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USS MICHIGAN (BB-27) on speed trials near Rockland, Maine.

Photographed in June 1909.

Photo from Henry Sabuda’s collection: link

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USS TEXAS (BB-35) on one of her runs during her standardization trial, possibly during her twenty-third. This photo maybe of when she reached her fasted speed ever of 22.28 knots (25.639 mph, 41.262 kph).

Photographed on either October 26 or 27, 1913.

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On her fifth run of her standardization trial, USS TEXAS (BB-35) obtained the speed of 12.609 knots (14.510 mph, 23.352 kph).

Photographed on October 23, 1913.

NAID: 496081269

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On her twenty-seventh run of her standardization trial, USS TEXAS (BB-35) obtained the speed of 20.033 knots (23.055 mph, 37.101 kph).

Photographed on October 27, 1913.

NARA: 496081290

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USS IOWA (BB-61) during her shakedown cruise.

Photographed on May 26, 1943.

United States. Navy, “USS Iowa battleship,” Digital Collections, accessed November 24, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/18889.

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USS MICHIGAN (BB-27) on speed trials near Rockland, Maine. She attained a speed of 20.01 knots an hour and averaged a fraction under 19 knots an hour on a four mile run.

Photographed by N.L. Stabbins and Enrique Muller in June 1909.

Photo from Henry Sabuda: link

Photos from Navsource: link

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On her twenty-fifth run of her standardization trial, USS TEXAS (BB-35) obtained the speed of 20.067 knots (23.093 mph, 37.164 kph).

Photographed on October 27, 1913.

NARA: 496081287