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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M82- 82
Creator: MacDonald, R. E.
Title, Dates: U.S.S. Florida photographic postcards, 1915-1917.
Amount: 9 postcards
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Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged
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Biographical/Historical:     The USS Florida (BB-30) was a battleship of the United States Navy that served during World War I in the North Sea. Over the years, there have been several USS Floridas, starting with a sloop in 1824. The BB-30 was the fifth Florida. Launched on May 12, 1910, in New York City, it displaced 21,825 tons of water, was 521 feet in length, travelled 21 knots an hour, and was armed with more than 30 guns (including the 12-inch, 21-inch, and 5-inch varieties). When the United States entered WWI in 1917, the Florida left the Virginia Coast as part of Battleship Division Nine to join the Grand British Fleet in the North Sea. The ship was decommissioned in 1931 as part of the 1930 Naval Limitations Treaty and was scrapped in Philadelphia in 1932.

    R.E. MacDonald was a naval officer on the USS Florida while it served with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea during the First World War. In 1954, MacDonald donated these postcards to Allen Morris, the original creator and curator of the Florida Photographic Collection at Florida State University before it transferred to the State Archives.
Summary:     This collection consists of nine photographic postcards of the naval battleship USS Florida during the First World War. The images depict the ship at sea, sailors loading the ship's guns, the ship firing, and several images of the ship's deck. The postcards are black and white and are unused.
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Additional Physical Form: Images from this collection have been digitized and are available on the Florida memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-82, PR75993-76002.
Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Subject Access Fields: United States. Navy.
Florida (Battleship)
Ships.
World War, 1914-1918 Florida
Photographs. aat
Postcards. aat
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