Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: Connecticut Class

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A 12 inch/45 calibre MK 5 gun barrel pictured being installed on Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Connecticut during her fitting out at Brooklyn Navy Yard on January 31st 1906.
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Connecticut Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS New Hampshire pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard on January 6th 1909.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Connecticut pictured in 1910.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Connecticut pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard on October 13th 1906.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard pictured on November 30th 1912 with what appears to be a Connecticut Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship alongside.
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Connecticut Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Louisiana pictured with sisters USS Kansas and USS New Hampshire, Atlantic Ocean, 1917.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Connecticut pictured at New York City on July 22nd 1910..Her keel was laid on March 10th 1903 at Brooklyn Navy Yard; launched on September 29th 1904, Connecticut was commissioned on September 29th 1906, as the most advanced ship in the US Navy.
Connecticut served as the flagship for the Jamestown Exposition in mid-1907, which commemorated the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony. She later sailed with the Great White Fleet on a circumnavigation of the Earth to showcase the US Navy's growing fleet of blue-water-capable ships. After completing her service with the Great White Fleet, Connecticut participated in several flag-waving exercises intended to protect American citizens abroad until she was pressed into service as a Troop Transport at the end of World War I to expedite the return of American Expeditionary Forces from France.
For the remainder of her career, Connecticut sailed to various places in both the Atlantic and Pacific while training newer recruits to the Navy. However, the provisions of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty stipulated that many of the older Battleships, Connecticut among them, would have to be disposed of, so she was decommissioned on March 1st 1923, and sold for scrap on November 1st 1923.
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Connecticut Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Vermont pictured at New York in 1911...She was the third member of the Class, which included five other ships. The Connecticut-Class were armed with a main battery of four 12-inch guns and had a top speed of 19 knots. Vermont was laid down in May 1904 at the Fore River Shipyard and launched in August 1905. She entered service with the Atlantic Fleet in March 1907.
Shortly after she entered service, Vermont joined the Great White Fleet for its circumnavigation of the globe in 1908–1909. She took part in the international Hudson–Fulton Celebration in New York in 1909 and made trips to Europe in 1910 and 1913. Thereafter, the ship became involved in interventions in several Central American countries, including the United States occupation of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution, where two of her crew earned the Medal of Honor. During the United States' participation in World War I from April 1917 to November 1918, Vermont served as a Training Ship for engine room personnel. From November 1918 to June 1919, she made a series of trips to return American soldiers from Europe before being decommissioned in June 1920. She was sold for scrap in November 1923 according to the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
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Connecticut Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Louisiana pictured in New York Harbor on February 8th 1919.
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Lead Ship, Dreadnought Battleship USS Connecticut pictured to the left of Floating Derrick Hercules, at Brooklyn Navy Yard on December 3rd 1912.
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