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Hull of VERMONT (BB-20) after being launched at the Fore River Shipyard.

Date: August 31, 1905

Digital Collections Massachusetts Collections Online: LS1035

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USS LOUISIANA (BB-19) arriving in New York hHarbor and docking in Hoboken, New Jersey.

She is dropping off the 59th Regiment, Coast Artillery from overseas. The regiment was in action for 68 days, but lost only two men during World War I.

Photographed on January 27, 1919.

NARA: 26433477, 26433573, 26433589, 26433705, 26433609, 26433607, 24686

Library of Congress: sn83030214

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USS CONNECTICUT (BB-18) tied up at the New York Navy Yard.

Note: the Christmas tree on her Armored Conning Tower.

Photographed on December 29, 1911.

NARA: 6880378, 6880383, 6880380, 6880379, 6880381, 6880382

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View of the bow decoration of USS NEW HAMPSHIRE (BB-25), taken while she was in drydock at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York.

Note: "giltwork on the eagle figurehead and associated decorations, stockless anchors in hause pipe, stocked anchor on billboard further aft, Sailors leaning on the bow bulwark, jack at half-mast, bell mounted in front of the ship's pilothouse, and barred portholes."

Photographed on January 6, 1909.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 19-N-4-8-21

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Photographed on August 12, 1905.

Launching ceremonies for USS KANSAS (BB-21) at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey. In the top photo (L to R): Miss Anna Hoch, sponsor; Miss Ora Allen; and Mrs. E.W. Hoch. E. W. Hoch, governor of Kansas, is the third man from right, at the top of the steps.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 52237

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Removal of the aft 8 inch gun turret by the 350-ton crane during the scrapping of ex-USS KANSAS (BB-21) at Philadelphia Naval Dockyard, Pennsylvania.

Photographed on September 26, 1923

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USS NEW HAMPSHIRE (BB-25) in the Hudson River, New York.

Note: the "wartime modifications, including removal of some of the seven-inch and three-inch broadside guns and fitting of blast deflection shields on the cage mast fire control positions."

Photographed on December 27, 1918.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 2891

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USS VERMONT (BB-20) with troops aboard in Brest, France.

Photographed on January 24, 1919.

Imperial War Museum: IWM Q 58291