Rescuer (ARS-18): 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 Rescuer (ARS-18) Probably shown upon completion of conversion at Seattle, Wash., in October 1942. Photo No. 19-N-36315 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Rescuer (ARS-18) Probably shown upon completion of conversion at Seattle, Wash., in October 1942. Photo No. 19-N-36314 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Rescuer (ARS-18) Probably shown upon completion of conversion at Seattle, Wash., in October 1942. Photo No. 19-N-36312 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Rescuer (ARS-18) Probably shown upon completion of conversion at Seattle, Wash., in October 1942. Photo No. 19-N-36313 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Rescuer (ARS-18) The abandoned wrecks of Rescuer and the Soviet merchant ship Turksib at Seal Cape, Alaska, on 15 April 1943. Rescuer was trying to salvage Turksib when she was driven onto the beach on 1 January 1943. The freighter has already lost her stern to Alaskan storms. Photo No. 80-G-72686 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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USS Rescuer (ARS-18) The abandoned wreck of Rescuer at Seal Cape, Alaska, on 15 April 1943. Rescuer was trying to salvage a Soviet freighter when she was driven onto the beach on 1 January 1943. While she appears intact in this view, her bottom was largely destroyed and she was left to be battered to pieces by the sea. Photo No. 80-G-72686 (detail) Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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