Tennessee-class Photographs | World War II Database

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Launch of USS California at Mare Island Navy Yard, 20 Nov 1919	Diagram of the Officers Station of a main battery 14-inch gun turret for the Tennessee-class of US battleships

Longitudinal diagram of a main battery 14-inch gun turret for the Tennessee-class of US battleships	Transverse diagram of a main battery 14-inch gun turret for the Tennessee-class of US battleships

California steaming at high speed, circa 1921	California underway circa 1921

Christmas party for disadvantaged children, San Pedro, California, aboard the USS California, 1921	Tennessee anchored in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa Feb 1921

Battleship USS Tennessee in drydock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, late in 1921.	US Navy Battle Fleet entering Panama Bay during fleet maneuvers, probably 1923

USS fleet in Panama Bay, 1 Mar 1923	The US Navy's first flattop aircraft carrier, USS Langley (Langley-class), at anchor with 7 battleships in Culebra Harbor, Culebra, Puerto Rico, 18 Mar 1926. See Comment below.

California underway during the 1930s	Admiral R. H. Leigh inspecting crew of California, 1932

Aerial view of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States with the Manette Bridge over the Port Washington Narrows in the background, 1932.	California firing 5-inch/51 guns in night battle practice, 1933

Cruiser USS Chester at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1936. Note six battleships on Battleship Row and cruisers Minneapolis and New Orleans (New Orleans-class) at left. Note also the passenger train cars in the foreground.	Tennessee-class battleship entering San Francisco Bay under the nearly completed Golden Gate Bridge on her way to attend the opening of the Oakland Bay Bridge, California, United States, 12 Nov 1936

California's forward 14-inch guns and her superstructure, 1938	Tennessee in harbor, 1938; note three SOC-3 floatplanes of Observation Squadron Two (VO-2B) aboard