Ships in Line

front of 2024.1032.160

front of 2024.1032.160

Name/Title

Ships in Line

Entry/Object ID

2024.1032.160

Description

From a donated collection of individual photographs and pages out of a Texas crewmember's photo album. Items donated by the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. Many photographs had writing on the pages of the book, now discarded. The caption formerly on the page for this photo read, "SCOUTING AND BATTLE FLEETS 1926" Features men on deck with a line of eight battleships sailing behind. Plane on deck. Back dates the photograph to 1927.

Context

Battleship Texas had an extensive shakedown cruise from November 23, 1926, to September 1, 1927. She had a brief period in dry dock during June and August 1927 before her speed trials. Clarence C. Clifton enlisted on August 2, 1926, and joined the crew of Battleship Texas on October 12, 1926, as a S2c. He was promoted to S1c in the summer of 1927 and remained stationed on Texas through 1930. Many crew members kept photo albums that each have hundreds of photos chronicling their service onboard.

Collection

Collection (Clarence C. Clifton), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects