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Munargo (AP-20): 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. Munargo

Photographed while on commercial service for the Munson Line between New York and Havana during the 1920s or early 1930s.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe

 
USS Munargo (AP-20)

Near the New York Navy Yard on 11 December 1941.
The small guns in the tubs on the bow are the ship's two 3"/23 anti-aircraft guns. The eight even smaller guns on the superstructure are .50 caliber machine guns.

Photo No. 19-N-26131
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS Munargo (AP-20)

Near the New York Navy Yard on 11 December 1941.

Photo No. 19-N-26133
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS Munargo (AP-20)

Near the New York Navy Yard on 26 May 1942.

Photo No. 19-N-30515
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS Munargo (AP-20)

Near the New York Navy Yard on 26 May 1942.
Two gun tubs have been added on the poop with two more 3"/23 antiaircraft guns, and the positions for the eight .50 caliber machine guns on the superstructure have been enlarged.

Photo No. 19-N-30513
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM