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Sangay (AE-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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USS Sangay (AE-10)

Off the Norfolk Navy Yard on 11 April 1943.

Photo No. 19-N-45742
Source: U. S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)

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USS Sangay (AE-10)

Photographed by an aircraft based at Hampton Roads, Va., on 3 April 1943. Note the platforms on deck for mine stowage.

Photo No. 80-G-68136
Source: U. S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)

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USS Sangay (AE-10)

Photographed by the Norfolk Navy Yard on 11 April 1943.

Photo No. 19-N-45741
Source: U. S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)

 
USS Sangay (AE-10)

Off the Virginia Capes on 13 May 1943 at the beginning of her first voyage as a mine and munitions transport, photographed by a blimp based at Weeksville, N.C.
An estimated 500 Mk. 6 moored contact mines are included in the cargo, even though all deck mine rail space is not occupied. The antenna for the SU surface search radar is installed at the forward edge of the funnel.
(Caption courtesy Warship International, No. 4, 1980, p. 338, where a detailed history and other photographs of this ship can be found.)

Photo No. 80-G-68136
Source: Shipscribe

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USS Sangay (AE-10)

At San Francisco on 10 November 1943.

Photo No. 19-N-57475
Source: U. S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)

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USS Sangay (AE-10)

At San Francisco on 5 March 1945, showing the platforms for mine stowage.

Photo No. 19-N-91344
Source: U. S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)

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