U.S. Navy personnel at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Women of U.S. Navy Nurse Corps stand and sit around on a lawn. Women in a group talk to each other. The women play on grass. A man in a uniform at the entrance of a building
U.S. warships, including 4-stacker destroyers, leave New York Harbor for maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean after World War I. Sailors relaxing on crowded deck of a U.S. Destroyer. Another destroyer and other vessels off to starboard. Crew maneuvers what appears to be a paravane (used in minesweeping operations), on davit. The ship's officers look down from the deck of the destroyer, where device is lowered into the water. Smoke rises from water, below the deck. Pieces of material being towed in water by lines from the Destroyer. Officer and sailors salute an officer disembarking. Officer,holding a megaphone, steps to platform and descends toward a launch. Views of streamers flying from a ship's mast and cables being pulled skyward above the ship. (holding a balloon, or other object aloft?) A motor launch filled with sailors passes rapidly. Buildings nearby in background.
U.S. warships maneuver with elements of the British Grand Fleet, during World War 1. Bow of a battleship seen briefly. A 3"/23 caliber gun on the deck of a subchaser. Battleships practice columnar battle formations. A destroyer in camouflage paint. Subchasers and destroyers underway. U.S. Matthews-built 110 foot wooden subchaser, number SC 175, plunging through heavy seas. Heavy wake behind a subchaser with sailor sitting in stern. View from stern of a subchaser with foamy wake as the boat rides the swells.
U.S. warships maneuver in the Atlantic Ocean. View from deck of a destroyer, with black smoke billowing from its stack, in strong winds. A sailor,wearing lifevest, looks through binoculars. A Navy officer steps to the deck with binoculars, and the sailor hunches down so as not to obstruct the officer's view, and stands up again, only after the offiicer leaves. Binocular view of a destroyer underway in heavy seas. Another officer arrives and looks through binoculars. Binocular view of U.S. battleships underway, in relatively calm seas.
U.S. warships maneuver in the Atlantic Ocean. View from upper deck of a ship, with crew lining the lower deck railing to watch maneuvers. Destroyers underway. A camouflaged ship underway, as a bi-wing float plane flies in front of it. Destroyers underway. Destroyer, USS Schenck (DD-159) seen rolling in moderate seas. Convoy of warships underway. Two destroyers in close formation. Two battleships in formation.
U.S. battleships pass in review in East River, on Christmas Day, 1918, Boat carrying sightseers and a tugboat, pass by a battleship, underway. Observers on deck of the anchored Presidential yacht, Mayflower, from which the Secretary of the Navy is reviewing the passing ships. Several battleships seen. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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