This page features all the views we have showing USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) in 1910 and before, when she was fitted with two military masts.
For other pictures concerning this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
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Photo #: NH 103625 USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship making 22.15 knots while running trials, 1904. Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912). Donation of David Shadell, 1987. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 105577 USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) Anchored off New York City, 1905. She is flying the flag of a junior rear admiral at her mainmast peak. Photographed by C.C. Langill, New York. Note how the sun casts the shadows of the three forward smokestacks on their neighbors immediately aft. Collection of Warren Beltramini, donated by Beryl Beltramini, 2007. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image size: 58KB; 740 x 570 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43749 USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) At anchor, circa 1908. She is flying a Rear Admiral's flag from her mainmast peak, and carries her name in large letters above her pilothouse. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103791-KN (color) USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) Postal card featuring a color-tinted photograph of the ship, as she appeared in 1905-1908 See Photo # NH 103791-A-KN for a view of the card's reverse side. Collection of USS Parsons (DD-949), 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 101231-KN (color) USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 1906. Photograph taken by Enrique Muller and published on a color-tinted postal card by the American News Company, New York. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 505 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 101230-KN (color) USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) Photograph taken circa 1905-1908, and published on a color-tinted postal card by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 60326 USS Stewart (Torpedo Boat Destroyer # 13) Underway in Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii Territory, circa 1908. Large ships in the background are USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5), at left, and USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8). Note the "Carbon Velox" marking, identifying the type of Kodak photographic paper used. Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farneholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1932. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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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. Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 505 pixels |
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The ship seen in the following images is either USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5) or her virtually identical sister, USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser # 8):
For other pictures concerning this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 16 September 2006
New image added 12 April 2008