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My grandfather, Charles Doelle ( pronounced dough-lee ), served aboard the USS Florida in WWI

Wow! The State Archives is always looking for photos of Floridians and Florida related images,documents or letters. Particularly WWI era material these days as we approach the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into the war on April 16th.

É uma bela captura!!!
这是一个美丽的捕捉!!!
It's a beautiful capture!!!

Beautiful Shot!!

ah, the ship that changed it all, commissioned in 1909, instantly making all before her obsolete her wiki entry is quite extensive en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)

There's a typo in the LOC caption, this is SMS Ostfriesland, a Helgoland-class battleship of the Imperial German Navy.

Ostfriesland would survive the war, only to be turned over to the United States as part of war reparations in April 1920. It is while in the United States that the Ostfriesland would gain its historical notoriety as a target ship, and be forever linked with air power proponent General Billy Mitchell.

See Aerofiles:
aerofiles.com/ostfriesland.html

There is a typo, her name is Ostfriesland (SMS) An early German Dreadnought, she survived the war like most German battlewagons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Ostfriesland

Thanks for catching the typo and for the further information. We'll adjust the description when we update.