USS Arkansas (BB-33)

Photograph

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Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

USS Arkansas (BB-33)

Entry/Object ID

PC06469

Description

Port side view of the Arkansas under way in port on a slow bell, flying US Colors at gaff on the after mast and foreign flag at peak of after mast, all four main turrets trained fore & aft, crew in blue uniforms, launched 14 January 1911, received her alphanumeric number of BB-33, served with the British Grand Fleet in WWI, Pacific war operations WWII, 1943 midshipmen training cruise in Newport RI where the current cataloger served as a midshipman, Arkansas a target ship and the current cataloger again observed her sinking 25 July 1946 in Test Baker of the Bikini Atom bomb test.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Black and White

Collection

Postcard Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Source, Unknown

Studio

Unknown Organization

Place

Unknown

Unknown

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Postcard

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Search Terms

Postcard, III-A-2 U.S. Navy -- Battleships