Battleships: Virginia Class

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Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Georgia pictured on her launch day,on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine October 11th 1904.
She was built by the Bath Iron Works in Maine, with her keel laid in August 1901 and her launching in October 1904. The completed Battleship was commissioned into the fleet in September 1906. The ship was armed with an offensive battery of four 12-inch guns and eight 8-inch guns, and she was capable of a top speed of 19 knots.
Georgia spent the majority of her career in the Atlantic Fleet. In 1907, she took part in the Jamestown Exposition and suffered an explosion in her aft 8-inch gun turret that killed or wounded 21 men. At the end of the year, she joined the Great White Fleet on its circumnavigation of the globe, which ended in early 1909. Peacetime training followed for the next five years, and in 1914 she cruised in Mexican waters to protect American interests during the Mexican Revolution. In early 1916, the ship was temporarily decommissioned.
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, she was tasked with training naval recruits for the expanding wartime fleet. Starting in September 1918, she was used as a convoy escort. Her only casualties during the war were due to disease, the result of poor conditions and severe overcrowding aboard the ship. Georgia was used to transport American soldiers back from France in 1918–1919, and the following year she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet, where she served as the flagship of the 2nd Division, 1st Squadron. The Washington Naval Treaty, signed in 1922, cut short her career, as it mandated severe draw-downs in naval strength. Georgia was accordingly sold for scrap in November 1923.
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Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS New Jersey pictured sporting her experimental camouflage livery on July 1st 1918.
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A SMOKING view of the old VIRGINIA!! ;) DFO
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Virginia pictured in April 1918.(larger clearer format)
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Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Nebraska pictured fitting out at Moran Brothers' Shipbuilding Yard,Seattle,c1906.
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Coaling ship aboard Virginia Class Battleship USS Georgia at Charleston Navy Yard c1919.
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Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Rhode Island pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard on July 21st 1910.
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Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS New Jersey pictured at Boston on May 3rd 1919.
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Showing the insane lengths to which some naval armament designers would go.... Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Nebraska pictured c 1910...She was built at Moran Brothers Shipyard in Seattle, Washington, with her keel laying in July 1902 and her launching in October 1904. The completed ship was commissioned in July 1907. She was armed with an offensive battery of four 12-inch guns and eight 8-inch guns, and was capable of a top speed of 19 knots...Nebraska joined the Great White Fleet after it reached the west coast of the United States in 1908 and continued with it during its circumnavigation of the globe. From 1909 to 1914, she conducted normal training and ceremonial duties with the Atlantic Fleet. She was deployed twice to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, in mid-1914 and mid-1916, before being decommissioned briefly in 1916. She was reactivated shortly before the United States entered World War I in April 1917, and was thereafter used as a Training Ship and later as a convoy escort. After the war, she transported American soldiers back from France, and in 1919 she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet, though she remained in service for less than a year, being decommissioned in July 1920. The 1922 Washington Naval Treaty mandated her disposal, which was effected in November 1923, when she was broken up for scrap.
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Virginia Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Georgia pictured on June 19th 1909.
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