Shipscribe Quick Links Menu.

Assistance (ARS-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.

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Trawler Sea Bird (1919)

This fishing vessel was a sister to Medric, which was selected in 1941 to become USS Assistance (ARS-10). Sea Bird is shown here nearly complete on the ways at South Portland, Maine, just before her launching in 1919. These two steam trawlers and a third sister, Pelican, had wooden hulls. All three were built by the Portland Co. for the East Coast Fisheries Co. of Portland and were home ported in Rockland, Maine.

Photo No. 12208
Source: Copyright Maine Historical Society, used with permission

 


NOTE
This image and three other views of Medric's two sisters may be viewed and purchased on the web site of the Maine Historical Society as follows:


These photos have also been published David H. Fletcher's book on the company that built these ships, The Portland Company 1846-1982, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002.