Leonidas (AD-7): Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Leonidas (1898-1922) Fitting out for war service at the New York Navy Yard on 29 May 1898. On 16 April 1898 the Navy bought two sister ships for conversion to colliers, Joseph Holland and Elizabeth Holland. They respectively became USS Hannibal (see AG-1) and Leonidas. Photo No. NH 51304 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Leonidas (1898-1922) Photographed on 22 April 1914 while serving as a surveying ship. At this time she closely resembled her original sister ship, USS Hannibal, which was also serving as a surveying ship. Photo No. NH 44471 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Leonidas (1898-1922) Photographed while serving as a surveying ship between 1914 and 1917. Photo No. 19-N-14252 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-N box 20. |
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USS Leonidas (1898-1922) At the Portsmouth, N.H., Navy Yard circa September 1917. The newly-commissioned submarine L-8 (No. 48) is in drydock in the foreground. Leonidas, just back from the Caribbean, has surveying launches in her well deck and a 3" gun in a shield on her forecastle. Photo No. NH 51135 (detail) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Leonidas (1898-1922) Tending subchasers and trawlers during World War I, probably at Corfu in 1918 or early 1919. After conversion to a subchaser tender she still closely resembled her original sister, Hannibal, but with minor differences including the positions of the searchlights on her masts. Photo No. NH 73480 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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