RIVADAVIA (LOC)

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RIVADAVIA

[ca. 1913] (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows the ship Rivadavia, built for the Argentine navy, in drydock for repairs, possibly at the Charleston Navy Yard, Boston. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and similar image: PAN SUBJECT - Groups no. 35)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13815

Call Number: LC-B2- 2785-3

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  2. Wystan (39 months ago | reply)

    Built for the Argentine navy. Named for the first president of Argentina. Built at the Fore River Shipbuilding Yards at Quincy, Massachusetts. Launched August 26, 1911. For awhile the Rivadavia was the largest battleship in the world:

    query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E 5DE163CE633A...

  3. technogeo (39 months ago | reply)

    I don't think the ship is under construction in this photo. It is completely outfitted with guns, lattice mast, jackstaff, lifeboats, etc. all of which normally would have been added after the launching of the hull, i.e. with the ship afloat.

    The ship appears to be in a drydock for repairs or modifications. The riveted stern plates in the other photo show signs of repeated impact and/or corrosion.

  4. technogeo (39 months ago | reply)

    If that's the Williamsburg Bridge on the left (in the distant haze between the ship and the crane), this photo may have been taken at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  5. Wystan (39 months ago | reply)

    @technogeo, that would make sense, as Bain's photo above is from the 1913 Bain photostream, not 1911.

    1911 Bain/LOC photo shows the Rivadavia after launch, but before completion:

    Two Bain/LOC photos of the Rivadavia getting a touchup at the shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, where it was built. Both photos dated Dec. 2, 1912:


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    ZacharySchlemmer added this photo to his favorites. (38 months ago)

  7. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (37 months ago | reply)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Rivadavia

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    queenbotu (is a busy little gnome) and renaizzance added this photo to their favorites.

  9. artolog (13 months ago | reply)

    3 pictures of her sister ship, Moreno, also at dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are in the Bain Collection. The ship was there for painting in October, 1914, prior to delivery to the Argentine navy. She was built in Camden, New Jersey. ("After the two new dreadnoughts were awarded to Fore River, Moreno was subcontracted out to the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey as called for in the final contract.")http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ARA_Moreno
    Moreno (LOC)

  10. TVL1970 (13 months ago | reply)

    This photo of ARA Rivadavia is the ship in Dry Dock No. 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Here is a similar photo in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) Flickr photostream:

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