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Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Pellet Plant, 3300 State Road P, F...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Pellet Plant, 3300 State Road P, F...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Pellet Plant, 3300 State Road P, F...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Power Plant, 328 South Avenue, Pensacola, Esca...

Significance: Constructed from 1905 to 1907, the Power Plant is among the most significant architectural landmarks within Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. With its grand scale and finely crafted detailing and... More

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Warehouse, 2900 Main Street, Alam...

Field notes with main record CA-295 Significance: The warehouse is a contributing structure in the United Engineering Company Shipyard historic district that has been determined eligible for the National Regist... More

Saugatuck, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virg...

Significance: Saugatuck is representative of the T2-SE-A1 tanker class, which became the workhorse for the U.S. Navy during World War II. There were 481 tankers constructed in this category under the U.S. Mari... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Quarters A58, Maseda Road, near terminus s...

Significance: Building A58 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building A58 is important to Mare Island in two respects: as an example of the long-standing tradition of the Navy bui... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Quarters A58, Maseda Road, near terminus s...

Significance: Building A58 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building A58 is important to Mare Island in two respects: as an example of the long-standing tradition of the Navy bui... More

[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Lewis Payne, in sweater, seated and manacl...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. This photograph has background of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, w... More

Navy Yard, Quarters B, East Side of Drill Field, Washington Navy Yard,...

Significance: Quarters B was built as a residence near 1800 and possibly pre-dates the Navy Yard. The house stood through damage during the War of 1812 and has been continuously used as the residence of the se... More

Navy Yard, Quarters B, East Side of Drill Field, Washington Navy Yard,...

Significance: Quarters B was built as a residence near 1800 and possibly pre-dates the Navy Yard. The house stood through damage during the War of 1812 and has been continuously used as the residence of the se... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Angle Two-...

Significance: This housing type is significant as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a grouping of related types. The design is notable for the use of new materials and minima... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hale Alii, Commandan...

Significance: Facility 1000 is an excellent example of early twentieth-century Craftsman-style architecture. The Commandant's Quarters is the largest and most architecturally elaborate of the thirteen quarters... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-3, Q-3 North Avenu...

Significance: Quarters 3, historically known as Quarters G, is one of eight unique residences at NAS Pensacola representing a distinct period in the development of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-story, irregu... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Office, 3300 State Road P, Festus,...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Aircraft Hangar, Radford Boulevard, Pensacola,...

Significance: Constructed in 1940, Building No. 632 is one of eleven new hangars erected between 1937 and 1940 as part of a massive expansion of Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola's facilities and aviation train... More

John P. Gillis to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, May 18, 1861 (Report on ...

U.S. Naval Academy, Dahlgren Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132 Survey number: HABS MD-329-4 Building/structure dates: 1898-1903 Building/structure dates: 1974 Subsequent Work National Register of Histor... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Dahlgren Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132 Survey number: HABS MD-329-4 Building/structure dates: 1898-1903 Building/structure dates: 1974 Subsequent Work National Register of Histor... More

U.S.S. Raleigh, Lieuts. Chadwick and Kiely and pay clerk

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Fyffe Avenue, Fyffe Avenue, Stockton, San...

Significance: Fyffe Avenue has been identified as a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Superintendent's Quarters, Annapolis, Anne Arundel...

Significance: With the companion Administration Building on the opposite side of the Chapel, the Superintendent's Quarters forms an important part of Ernest Flagg's Beaux-Arts scheme for the United States Naval... More

U.S. Naval Hospital, Corps Barracks, Park Boulevard, Balboa Park, San ...

Significance: A contributing structure in an eligible historic district. Not individually significant. (Designed and built to be a school and dormitory for student hospital orderlies.) Survey number: HABS CA... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Police Station, North of Main Gate on Fyf...

Significance: Building 17 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places u... More

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Nurses' Quarters, East side of Chief's Co...

Significance: Building 3, constructed in 1935 as quarters for Naval Hospital Philadelphia's nursing staff, forms part of the original hospital complex built during the early 1930s. Incorporating the same Art De... More

Destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor Feby 15th, 1...

Destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, with inserts of location of the "Maine-Havana Habor," recovering the dead bodies, and head-and-shoulders portraits of Admiral Sicard and Captain Sigsbe... More

Crew of the original "Monitor" on her deck

Stereograph showing Union sailors relaxing and playing games on the deck of the U.S.S. Monitor on the James River in Virginia. No. 490. Part of series: Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to James ... More

U.S. Naval Academy, Griffin Hall, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD

Significance: Griffin Hall was built in 1917 as an extension to Isherwood Hall by Flagg's disciple Jules de Sibour who had become consulting architect to the Academy. Griffin is a skinny rectangle (56' x 181')... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 37, Smith Quadrangle, Washington, District of ...

Significance: Building 37 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

[Beaufort, S.C. Robert Barnwell Rhett's house]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862.

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

[Portrait of Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, officer of the Unite...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Railroad Repair Yard Shed, Northwest of i...

Significance: Building 916 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Quarters 21, Walnut Avenue, west side betw...

Significance: Building 21 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Quarters 21 is significant as an element of a small row of residences that exists along Walnut Avenue to the north of C... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Quarters 21, Walnut Avenue, west side betw...

Significance: Building 21 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Quarters 21 is significant as an element of a small row of residences that exists along Walnut Avenue to the north of C... More

Running the "machine" - Print, Library of Congress collection

A scathing attack on the ineptness and military ineffectualness of the Lincoln administration. The cartoon derives its title from an indiscreet letter written by secretary of war Edwin McMasters Stanton to past... More

Running the "machine" - Print, Library of Congress collection

A scathing attack on the ineptness and military ineffectualness of the Lincoln administration. The cartoon derives its title from an indiscreet letter written by secretary of war Edwin McMasters Stanton to past... More

USS Vulcan, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Vir...

Significance: The Vulcan is significant as the lead ship in the Vulcan class of repair ships, providing assistance to U.S. naval ships from ports close to the occupational areas of the Atlantic Fleet. The Vulc... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Pearl City Peninsula...

Significance: This house is significant as an example of the residences added by the Navy after World War II to the large shoreline lots at Pearl City Peninsula. This house, and the adjacent two similar houses... More

[Portrait of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, officer of the Federal Navy]

Wilkes is not in uniform. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seige of Vera Cruz March 1847: by the U.S. Army and Navy

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5858

U.S.S. Texas - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Convalescent Ward, South side of Jackman ...

Significance: Building 54 is one among a connected complex of 12 Convalescent Ward buildings (47-58) that were constructed in 1945 to house convalescent wards and specialized therapeutic facilities for injured ... More

Bostwick Hall, 3901 Forty-eighth Street, Bladensburg, Prince George's ...

Significance: Bostwick is one of the first, and one of the few extant, structures built in Bladensburg upon its founding in 1742. Only four pre-Revolutionary War buildings now stand. Although altered over the... More

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Control Station, CA State Highway 39 ...

Significance: Morris Dam Test Facility (MDTF) was built at the Morris Dam Reservoir for the purpose of obtaining basic hydrodynamic data for use in design and development of Naval Ordinance, particularly air-to... More

U.S. Navy Yard, Commandant's House, Chelsea Street, Charlestown, Suffo...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27, FN-75 Survey number: HABS MA-2-10 Building/structure dates: 18q1 Initial Construction

Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 9, Between Piers 8 & 10, along Mystic Rive...

Significance: Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and Pier 9 occupies the site of one of the early wharfs at Charlestown Navy Yard. Originally known as Sh... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Director's Residence, Tome Road, Port Deposit, C...

Significance: As the residence of the directors of the Tome School for Boys, the house was at the social and management core of school life. Architecturally, it is a fine, formal example of a Georgian Revival ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Practice Bomb Storehouse, Yorktown Boul...

Significance: This building was associated with the training function of the Naval Air Station on Ford Island during World War II. The practice bombs stored here were used to train air crews in aerial bombing.... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dry Dock No. 4, East & West Pumpwells, ...

Significance: They are located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. These two facilities were built in 1943 in association with the expansion of dry dock facilities at Pearl Harbor during WWII. T... More

[Two unidentified sailors in Union uniforms in front of painted backdr...

Case: Ornate scroll thermoplastic frame. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs ... More

U.S.S. New Hampshire. Bayonet drill

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Jacob Tome Institute, Memorial Hall, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil Co...

Last 10 b/w photos are photogrammetric images. Significance: Memorial Hall, the main structure of the Tome School for Boys, is a notable example of the Beaux-Arts or American Renaissance style effectively used ... More

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Napa & Alden Roads,...

Significance: Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) is one of the first operational installations in the United States military space program. The complex was constructed in 1959 to launch satellites into polar orbit... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters, Q-6 North Avenue, P...

Significance: Historically known as Quarters H, Quarters 6 is one of eight quarters on North Avenue at NAS Pensacola, whose development reflects the 19th-century history of the Pensacola Navy Yard. The two-stor... More

Naval Training Station, Senior Officers' Quarters District, Quarters N...

Significance: Quarters 6 is significant as part of the Senior Officers' Quarters District. Although short-lived as a training station (1898-1923), Yerba Buena Island was essential in the establishment of a mode... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Annex, Near Russell Aven...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It is associated with the great expansion of facilities and personnel during WWII. It functioned as a secure fireproof record stor... More

You, wireless fans, help the Navy get the Hun submarine 1000 radio men...

U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing a wireless radio operator wearing headphones. Poster caption continues: Apply at 280 Broadway or any recruiting station. Title transcribed from item.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, WAVES Officers Quarters, Cedar Avenue, wes...

Significance: Building 733 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 733 is significant for its association with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES. In... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, WAVES Officers Quarters, Cedar Avenue, wes...

Significance: Building 733 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 733 is significant for its association with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES. In... More

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Dry Dock No. 4, B...

Significance: This rectangular drydock has a vertical concrete wall and a flat concrete floor formed on steel pilings. It is an example of a large WWII era drydock built using the tremie method developed by F.R... More

William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Marine Railway No. 2 Machine House & Su...

Significance: It functioned as the winch for the Marine Railway No. 2, which was a repair cradle for Pearl Harbor. The Marine Railway No. 2, with its rails, cradle, and superstructure of steel beams and steel g... More

[Portrait of Capt. Henry Walke, officer of the Federal Navy]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Box Factory, Between Fyffe & Davis Avenue...

Significance: Building 617 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hale Alii, Officers'...

This structure was moved to its current location from the Shipyard in c1942. (5/7/03, KEY) Significance: Facility 40 is a fair example of early twentieth-century Craftsman-style architecture. This simple, util... More

[Waterfront fire, probably burning of the Washington Navy Yard, 1814, ...

Title devised by cataloger. Caption on mat: "#17 - Riverscape with city reflected." Attribution based on provenance. Watermark: J. Whatman. DLC/PP-1904:42176.17. Exhibited: "Out of the Ashes: A New Library for ... More

Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Boat House, U.S. Coast Guard Station, acr...

Significance: When constructed in 1942, this building was designed and used as the torpedo shop. By 1958 the structure had been converted to the Exchange Auto Repair building. This structure is an early permane... More

Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Hospital Building, Rixey Place, bounded by ...

Significance: The Greek Revival-style Naval Hospital, built in 1827-33, is the first Naval Hospital built in America. The first of six or seven medical facilities constructed for the Navy during the 1820s and ... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Pier 10, Between Piers 9 & 11 along Mystic Rive...

Significance: Pier 10 is one of four piers built at Charlestown Navy Yard in the decade prior to World War I. Wharfs and piers were critical to the Navy Yard's mission of shipbuilding and maintenance, and occu... More

Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Warehouse, 3300 State Road P, Fest...

Significance: The Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, also known as Hematite Former Fuel Cycle Facility and the Westinghouse Electric Company Hematite Facility, was constructed over a period of thirty-one years... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Dry Dock No. 4, Latrine, Intersection o...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was constructed in 1943 in association with the expansion of the Navy Shipyard during WWII. It is more notably grouped with gal... More

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News,...

Significance: Originally built for American President Lines for commercial purposes, the Military Sea Transportation Services instead converted the Empire State V to a troopship. One of three in its class, it ... More

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News,...

Significance: Originally built for American President Lines for commercial purposes, the Military Sea Transportation Services instead converted the Empire State V to a troopship. One of three in its class, it ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Comm...

Significance: This was the residence for the chief medical officer of the navy hospital. As such, this residence was designed to be the most luxurious and have the most dignified look of any of the houses in t... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Comm...

Significance: This was the residence for the chief medical officer of the navy hospital. As such, this residence was designed to be the most luxurious and have the most dignified look of any of the houses in t... More