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A similar photo is in The Guthrie daily leader., June 10, 1920, HOME, Image 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063952/1920-06-10/ed-... and in The Sun and the New York herald., June 13, 1920, Section 5 Rotographic Section, Image 60 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030273/1920-06-13/ed-...

Both photos were likely taken at New York Navy Yard on the day of the battleship's commissioning, 3 June 1920. The deck view is taken from the ship's fantail looking forward. Note numerous visitors on deck, including women in formal attire, as well as photographers with tripods, indicating a festive occasion, yet a great number of shipyard workers dressed for work occupy most of the topside spaces above the main deck. The ship is incomplete -- scaffolding surrounds the main top, and calibration equipment is attached to the 14-inch guns of No.4 main batter turret. TENNESSEE was officially completed and delivered to the Navy on 16 September 1920.

Christopher Cavas follow photo link for article about commissioning ceremony.

It's probably a cruiser; it looks a bit small for a dreadnought anyway, and the all big gun nature of the armament would rule out a pre-dreadnought battleship.

Well, sadly it's not HMS King Edward VII, whose sailors we encountered before here. But similar - spot the differences ...

Actually, maybe it is a pre-dreadnought. It looks quite like HMS Goliath. Or HMS Formidable. Edit: Or indeed quite a large number of late pre-dreadnought classes. e.g. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/HMS_Montagu_%...

Looks like it was moored somewhere around here

Here's a record of HMS Ocean (a Canopus-Class battleship) in Castletownbere in 1905 www.plymouth.gov.uk/edwardianphotos/notice824.html

There is no Rastafarian Navy - there's a zero after Dread in the original caption so it should read Dreadnought Cruiser. Indomitable was a Dreadnought-class Cruiser

Alan Denney Mmm well caught, that naught!

the term Dread(naught) Cruiser is also an obsolete description. HMS Dreadnought revolutionized warships in 1906. The first "all big gun" ship, she was the first modern battleship. Jackie Fisher who designed her, also designed the battlecruisers, of which INDOMITABLE was the second ship. They were originally known as armoured cruisers until they were redesignated as battlecruisers by an Admiralty order of 24 November 1911. The confusion seems quite common as they were also known as cruiser-battleship, dreadnought cruiser and battle-cruiser before the admiralty decree. The date may be 8/10/1915. It appears she may be coaling and/or taking on supplies.

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