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Kenwood (IX-179) 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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S.S. George W. Barnes (American Tanker, 1918)

Photographed by her builder, Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass., on 5 June 1918, probably on sea trials.
Two sisters became USS Kenwood (IX-179) and Sea Foam (IX-210) in 1944-1945.

Photo No. None
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-32-S

 
S.S. Watertown (American Tanker, 1919)

Photographed by a blimp from Naval Air Station, Elizabeth City, N.C., east of Hampton Roads on 2 April 1943.
Two sisters became USS Kenwood (IX-179) and Sea Foam (IX-210) in 1944-1945.

Photo No. 80-G-64284
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G

 
S.S. Apsheron (Soviet tanker, 1916)

At San Francisco circa 1943 with probable ice damage to her bow.
This ship, completed in 1916 as the American tanker Texas, was loaned to the U.S.S.R. in 1943 under Lend Lease. Shortly after her return by the Soviets in 1944 she became USS Kenwood (IX-179).

Photo No. NH 89881
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
S.S. Hadnot (American Tanker, 1919)

Photographed by a blimp from Naval Air Station, Elizabeth City, N.C., east of Hampton Roads on 9 March 1944.
Two sisters became USS Kenwood (IX-179) and Sea Foam (IX-210) in 1944-1945.

Photo No. 80-G-222578
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G

 
S.S. Baldhill (American tanker, 1919)

Photographed by an aircraft on 9 March 1944.
Two sisters became USS Kenwood (IX-179) and Sea Foam (IX-210) in 1944-1945.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe