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Kent (AP-28) Class: 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 Santa Teresa (ID # 3804)

Photographed by J.W. Allison of New York while bringing troops home from Europe in 1919.
This ship was renamed Kent in 1936 while in merchant service and served in both the Army and the Navy during World War II.
This copy of this image was damaged in several areas, including in the superstructure forward of the smokestack.

Photo No. NH 105864
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
S.S. Kent

Underway during the late 1930s.
Note the severely reduced rig in this ship and her sister Irwin.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe

 
USAT Kent

At a pier with troops and their trucks alongside circa June 1941 during her brief period of prewar Army service.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe

 
USAT Irwin

Departing the Brooklyn Army Base, Brooklyn, N.Y., in August 1941.

Photo No. SC 126007 (Army Signal Corps photo)
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-111

 
USS Kent (AP-28)

Near the New York Navy Yard on 22 December 1941 after her Navy conversion.

Photo No. 19-N-27116
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS Kent (AP-28)

Near the New York Navy Yard on 22 December 1941 after her Navy conversion.

Photo No. 19-N-27117
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM