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the negative is dated 10/23/14. The New York Times reported on 10/26/14 that the ship (one of the most powerful in the world at that time) was in New York for painting at the (Brooklyn) Navy Yard and had left the day before for sea trial. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E1D91430E733A...

LOC: Given this info, the 1910 date should be changed. Dry dock No. 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard had been recently completed. Here is some of its history from Engineering News of 1912: "Dry Dock No. 4, at the Brooklyn U. S. Navy Yard, has finally been completed after seven years' labor, during which three different contractors have successively taken over the contract. The dock is of concrete construction, 695 ft.long, 139 ft. wide and 31ft. deep, providing dockage for the largest naval vessels now contemplated. The contract for its construction was first let in 1905 to George Spearin, but the immense difficulties in foundation construction, resulting from the soft bottom encountered, caused that firm to abandon the job, and in 1907 it was relet to the Williams Engineering Co. Soon after, when only 15% of the work had been completed, that firm, too, was forced to abandon the contract. It was then thought that the Government would have to continue the work by day labor, but this was decided against and bids were asked for the completion of the work from private companies, plans for its prosecution to be submitted with the bid. Under this arrangement the contract was awarded in October, 1909, to Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins, of Boston, Mass. This firm carried the construction to a successful conclusion, and on May 10, 1912 it was emptied to allow the docking of the 22,000-ton U. S. battleship "Utah." The operation proved successful. The original appropriation for the construction was $1,500,000, of which $240,000 was expended in the first two attempts at construction. The final bid was $1,390,000, which was subsequently Increased to $2,750,000." books.google.com/books?id=YeMRAQAAMAAJ&vq=944&lr&... I believe it is the only dry dock at the Brooklyn yard with a round end, and there appear to be many pictures of ships docked in it in the Bain collection.

@ Artolog, why bother changing the date, it's LOC's standard sometime between roughly 1910 and 1915 for the entire batch of negatives.

Well, I think they actually do change them once they receive enough information. I'm referring to the date at upper right, under The Library of Congress, not the date under the picture.

Built for the Argentine navy. Named for Bernardino Rivadavia the first (and later, exiled) president of Argentina. Built in the USA, at the Fore River Shipbuilding Yards at Quincy, Massachusetts. Launched August 26, 1911. For awhile the Rivadavia was the largest battleship in the world: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E5DE163CE633A... Commissioned by the Argentine Navy in 1914, it lasted 42 years. Sold for scrap in 1956: www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/argentina/pages/r...

I don't think the ship is under construction in this photo. It is completely outfitted with guns, lattice mast, lifeboats, etc. all of which would normally have been added after the launching of the hull, i.e. with the ship afloat. The ship appears to be in a drydock (Brooklyn Navy Yard?) for repairs or modifications. The riveted stern plates show signs of repeated impact and/or corrosion.

@technogeo -- your deductions appear to be sound, and they square better with the position of the undated photo being here in Bain's 1913 photostream, not in the 1911 group.

Thanks to both of you for your great research. I'd like the discussion to continue, but wanted to point out another image of the ship in our collection. It's a panoramic photo taken in 1914. The title is: La tripulacion del Aroragado [sic] "Rivadavia" a' su llegada al arsenal de Charlestown, Mass., U.S.A., 24ch Agosto de 1914. The warehouse buildings on the left of the panorama look the same as those in this Bain photo.

Exelente foto del Rivadavia. En la foto aparentemente se le esta realizando mantenimiento, porque creo que en essa epoca Argentina no contaba con los diques secos (Dry Docks) para estos buques. Hector, Buenos Aires

The light cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-46). Surviving unharmed after the Japanese sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the ship would serve and fight throughout the Second World War. She would be sold to Argentina in 1951. As the Argentine Navy's ARA General Belgrano (C-4), she would be torpedoed and sunk by Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Conqueror in May 1982 during the Falkland Islands War. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano_(C-4)