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Tall Ships: 1900

Pensacola Bay circa 1900. "Pensacola Harbor, Florida." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Pensacola Bay circa 1900. "Pensacola Harbor, Florida." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

 

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USS Texas

Good call on possibly being the USS Texas. However, I don't think it is. I think the Texas had a shorter stack. The one next to it looks like the USS Alabama.

Windjammers!

Great angle on the square-riggers. Can anyone ID them?

Old Hoodoo

The warship on the right is probably the first USS Texas--also known as "Old Hoodoo" after running aground twice in two years.

Warships in the background

Anyone know why 4 warships would be steaming by in the background? I'm guessing they are the reason this photo was taken.

[1. Pensacola Navy Yard. 2. This isn't how a commercial photographic company such as Detroit Publishing would take a photo of warships, far away and behind other ships. The photo is of the dock. -tterrace]

Avina torpedoed in 1917

Looks like the ship on the right, SS Vivina, was torpedoed in 1917.

"On March 13th, 1917, Vivina, on a voyage from Newport, Mon. to Horta with a cargo of coal, was sunk by the German submarine UC-21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel), 12 miles off Ile d'Oleron. There were no casualties."

It's complicated

I've always thought ship's rigging looks like it was designed by Rube Goldberg. Moving a ship by wind power was certainly not a simple process!

Those US Navy Ships

In the background are some ships of the US Navy.

The ship on the left hand side in the foreground is a Kearsarge class battleship (so either Kearsarge or Kentucky), but I am not sure what is behind her. Any ideas?

The two ships on the right are Illinois class battleships, the only USN ships built with the funnels side by side, a common feature of Royal Navy ships at the time.

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