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Newport News (AK-3): Photographs

These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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S.S. Odenwald (1903)

At San Juan, Puerto Rico, in March 1915.
She is being watched by the U.S. Lighthouse Tender Myrtle, on the right.

Photo No. LC-B2-3456-12
Source: U.S. Library of Congress.

 
USS Newport News (1917-1925)

Photographed circa 1917-1918.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-E.

 
USS Newport News (1917-1925)

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard in June 1918 in pattern camouflage.

Photo No. 19-N-10398
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.

 
USS Newport News (1917-1925)

In San Francisco Bay, Calif., circa 1919.

Photo No. NH 84673
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.

 
USS Newport News (AK-3)

Photographed circa the early 1920s being assisted by USS Undaunted (AT-58).

Photo No. NH 45128
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.