Antares (AG-10) Class: Photographs

USS Procyon (AG-11) Photographed circa 1921-1922 at the beginning of her Navy service. She does not yet have the numerous airports in the hull that distinguished this class from the Capella (AK-13) class. Photo No. NH 44361 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.
USS Antares (AG-10) Leaving the Philadelphia Navy Yard for Panama on 1 March 1923. From the beginning this ship differed from other Hog Island Type A cargo ships in the Navy (including Procyon) by having had the hatch and kingposts between the bridge and smokestack replaced with a deckhouse. This change may have been made while she was in merchant service. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-A-31
USS Antares (AG-10) Photographed in September 1924 with her crew mustered at quarters, her two forward hatches open, and a Navy tug alongside to port. She was serving as the fleet tender and target repair vessel for the Scouting Fleet in the Atlantic and was the flagship of Train Squadron One of the Fleet Base Force. Photo No. NH 1220 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Procyon (AG-11) At New York on 29 April 1927 while serving as the flagship of the Fleet Base Force and of its Train Squadron Two, which normally operated with the Battle Fleet in the Pacific. Photo No. NH 44362 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Procyon (AG-11) In port with battleships of the Battle Fleet circa 1928-1929. Behind her is a battleship of the Colorado (BB-45) class and to the left is a modernized unit of the New York (BB-34) class with another of the "big five" behind her. The New York class completed modernization in 1927. Procyon still has a kingpost and boom between the bridge and amidships deckhouse, although a light deck now fills the gap in this area. Photo No. NH 86626 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.
USS Antares (AG-10) Dressed ship on an unknown date between the wars. Photo No. 19-N-26702 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
Training Ship Empire State In the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. on 16 June 1936 as training ship for the New York Merchant Marine Academy. Formerly USS Procyon (AG-11), she underwent relatively few changes in her conversion to a training ship, although she has lost her kingposts between the bridge and smokestack. Photo No. 19-N-26702 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
USS Antares (AKS-3) Probably photographed at Pearl Harbor circa August-September 1942. She was given the then-standard armament for older auxiliaries of 2-5"/51 and 4-3"/50 guns, but in her installation the after 5" and 3" guns swapped positions, with the 5" gun superfiring over the 3" guns on the fantail. The forward pair of 3" guns is abreast the foremast. Photo No. 19-N-34745 Source: Shipscribe
Training Ship American Pilot At New York circa late 1940 after being taken over by the Maritime Commission. During the war this ship, previously USS Procyon (AG-11) and then the training ship Empire State, was painted grey and given a small armament. Her training operations were limited to the relatively safe waters of Long Island Sound. Photo No. NH 105258 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.
USS Antares (AKS-3) Probably photographed during the latter part of World War II, between 1943 and 1945. Photo No. NH 83307 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.