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Bridgeport (AD-10): 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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S.S. Breslau

The mail steamer Breslau of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line of Bremen as shown on a contemporary post card. This ship carried up to 1,600 immigrants per voyage westbound to America and large cargoes of wheat and cotton back to Germany.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe

 
USS Bridgeport (ID-3009)

At New York on 17 October 1917, a month after arriving from New Orleans where she had been seized and repaired.

Photo No. NH 56577
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS Bridgeport (ID-3009)

In service at Brest, France, as a repair ship circa late 1918.
Alongside are USS Wainwright (DD-62) and the former Dutch NOTS turret steamer USS Beukelsdijk. In the foreground is the captain's gig of the French naval school.

Photo No. NH 42569
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS Bridgeport (ID-3009)

Probably shown at Brest, France, in late 1918 or in 1919.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe

 
USS Bridgeport (AR-2)

Off New York City in May 1921, just before going to the Boston Navy Yard for an overhaul and two months before being redesignated as a destroyer tender (AD-10).
Note that the after part of the open area under the amidships superstructure has been plated in, probably for additional repair facilities.

Photo No. NH 90100
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS Bridgeport (AR-2 or AD-10)

Alongside a pier circa the early 1920s.
The after part of the amidships superstructure has been plated in.

Photo No. NH 106390
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

In drydock at the Boston Navy Yard circa 1924-1925 while in reserve there.

Photo No. None
Source: Navsource

 
USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

In use at the Norfolk Navy Yard circa early 1932 as a barracks ship for the crew of the battleship Idaho while that ship was being modernized.
In the foreground are the smokestack and the top of a lattice mast that have just been removed from Idaho by the floating crane (probably YD-26).

Photo No. Unknown (Houser Collection)
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS Bridgeport (AD-10)

In reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 9 January 1941.
In the foreground is the catapult lighter USS AVC-1 (q.v.), which was placed in service about a week later.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USAT Bridgeport

In service circa 1946 as an Army transport for military dependents.

Photo No. NH 98482
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command