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OSTFRIESLAND -- heavy guns (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • TVL1970 said:
    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
  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    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
  • Barbara (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks for catching the typo and for the further information. We'll adjust the description when we update.

Deck scene - MINAS GERAES (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Reges Pineze said:
    The strange is that the real name of the State is "Minas Gerais", with "i", but that's the name of the ship. I realy don't know if the name of the ship is realy "Minas Geraes" or "Minas Gerais". I'll try to find that.
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    D. Pineze: It is a little strange, but it turns out that 'Minas Geraes' was the spelling used at the time the ship was commissioned. Many references to that spelling can be found in newspapers of the time, and in other sources. The modern spelling is Gerais, as you pointed out, but Geraes is correct when referring to this ship. Here is one example article about the Minas Geraes from the New York Times in 1908. Thanks for your comment!
  • Reges Pineze said:
    Yah... i can imagine the spelling and "Geraes" make sense. It was just a curiosity to find something diferent that i saw... but its perfect. A little charm in the history... rsrsrs. Thanks to this answer coment.
  • Marcelo Taube said:
    Another curiosity is that Minas Gerais is a state that has no connection to the sea! So it's sort of ironic to call a ship with this name!
  • B-59 said:
    A similar photo appeared in The Sunday Oregonian, July 13, 1913, SECTION FIVE, Image 59 with the caption: "The Minas Geraes, which brought Dr. Muller. the Premier of Brazil, to this country, is one of two Dreadnoughts owned by Brazil. Another much larger is now building. The Minas Geraes and her sister ship, the Sao Paolo, are of 19,281 tons displacement. She car ries 12 12-inch guns and 22 of 4.7 Inches. Her horsepower is 23.500, and she can make 21 knots an hour." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1913-07-13/ed-1/se...

A pair of 12" guns -- Broadside of HMS DREADNOUGHT -- the all big gun warship (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    the ship that started it all. this is one of the wing turrets, presumably the starboard as it would be parked facing forward.
  • 6ada0c8bab40b25c1e51458016662696 said:
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