Old Navy

[Brian James]

14 inch guns pictured at Bethlehem Steel being constructed for the Greek Battleship Salamis, being built at A G Vulcan Shipyards in Hamburg..The outbreak of World War I in July 1914 drastically altered the situation; the British Government declared a naval blockade of Germany in August after it entered the war. The blockade meant that the guns could not be delivered, but the ship was nevertheless launched on November 11th 1914. With no possibility of arming the ship, work was halted on December 31st 1914. In addition, manpower shortages created by the war, along with the redirection of steel production to the needs of the Army, meant that less critical projects could not be completed, especially since other warships were nearing completion and could be finished much more quickly. By this time Greece had paid AG Vulcan only £450,000. Bethlehem Steel refused to send the main battery guns to Greece. The 14-inch guns were instead sold to the British, who used them to arm the four Abercrombie Class Monitors.

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Foote Class Torpedo Boat USS Winslow pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1899.

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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Iowa pictured in 1897.

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The USN's first iron hulled warship, Paddlewheel Gunboat USS Michigan pictured c1890.

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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Iowa pictured c1899.

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13 inch/35 calibre and 8 inch/35 calibre double turret..a maintenance and gunlayer's nightmare!!........Kearsarge Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kentucky pictured c 1900.

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Maine Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Ohio pictured in Dry Dock No 4 at Hunters Point Navy Yard on July 19th 1904.

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Naval Ambulance...Norfolk Navy Yard...February 12th 1918.

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Union Gunboat USS Santiago de Cuba pictured c1861..The Brig was acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a Gunboat with powerful 20-pounder rifled guns and 32-pounder cannon and was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. She was a brigantine-rigged, side-wheel steamship built in 1861 at Brooklyn, New York. She was purchased by the Navy on September 6th 1861 at New York City; and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on November 5th 1861.

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V Class Submarine USS V-3 pictured at Mare Island Navy Yard on April 11th 1922.