Currituck (AV-7) 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 Currituck (AV-7) Near the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 19 July 1944 three days before completion. Photo No. 19-N-69352 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Norton Sound (AV-11) In San Pedro Bay, California, on 24 January 1945 soon after completion. Photo No. 19-N-77525 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Pine Island (AV-12) Photographed by her builder, the Todd Shipyards Corp., San Pedro, California, probably on 17 April 1945 a few days before her completion and commissioning. Photo No. 19-N-85291 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Norton Sound (AV-11) At Kerama Rettu, Ryukyu Islands, on 8 June 1945 with two PBM Mariner seaplanes on deck. Photo No. 80-G-343673 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Pine Island (AV-12) With a temporary deck for a HO3S helicopter forward and three Martin PBM-5 Mariner flying boats aft for Operation Highjump in Antarctica between December 1946 and March 1947. Sister Currituck (AV 7) was similarly fitted and employed. One of the Mariners from Pine Island crashed in a blizzard. Photo No. USN 610662 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Salisbury Sound (AV-13) Conducting seaplane operational test training with a Martin P5M Marlin off Alameda, California, on 8 July 1953. The P5M, an improved PBM, entered service in 1951. The searchlight platform aft of the bridge has been removed. Photo No. USN 626592 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Pine Island (AV-12) Underway in August 1964. She and her sisters all acquired a tall high frequency broadband discage antenna on the bow and other communications enhancements during the 1950s and early 1960s. Photo No. KN-11024 Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Currituck (AV-7) Loading a SP-5B Marlin aircraft (a P5M-2S redesignated in 1962) during seaplane operations off Santa Catalina Island, California, on 12 November 1964. Photo No. USN 1108994 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Salisbury Sound (AV-13) The handwritten "21 Nov 66 - 28 Feb 67" on the back of this photo may identify the command history submission to which it was attached. The ship arrived home from Vietnam on 21 November 1966 and decommissioned for the last time on 31 March 1967. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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