HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS

Click here for photos on Tom Scott's website. 

  • Radios  1914, Radio operator & radios.
  • 1st Plane Flight  10 March 1919, 1st airplane flight from a platform atop the turret of an American battleship.  Photo courtesy of Ephraim Dickson.
  • "Talkies"  1930, TEXAS 1st USN ship to have movies with sound.
  •  holystoningi 1927 - 1931,the main deck
  • Old Ironsides -July 1934, TEXAS and NEW YORK in Boston, with USS CONSTITUTION (Old Ironsides).
  • Cherbourg Shell Hit - Half deck compartment where the unexploded 240mm shell penetrated the port side of the ship, during the battle for Cherbourg.
  • Happy Troops 1945, Bringing the troops home - the "Magic Carpet" operation.
  • Iceberg in 1939, off the coast of Newfoundland