Samuel Gompers (AD 37) 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.

USS Puget Sound (AD 38) Underway in Narragansett Bay on 16 October 1968. Photo No. USN K-60023 Source: Shipscribe
USS Samuel Gompers (AD 37) Underway off Oahu, Hawaii, on 24 November 1968. Photo No. NH 96875 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Puget Sound (AD 38) Underway in Narragansett Bay on 13 December 1968. Photo No. USN K-63918 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Puget Sound (AD 38) Photographed in 1975 while serving as flagship for Commander U.S. Second Fleet. She appears to have both her old 5"/38 gun mount and two of her new 20mm guns on the 01 level forward. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Samuel Gompers (AD 37) In her new configuration without the 5"/38 gun mount. Photo received March 1977. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Puget Sound (AD 38) With a dark colored bow number, a pattern also seen in Middle East Force command ships. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe
USS Puget Sound (AD 38) With a lattice mast aft probably for a TACAN antenna and two of her four 20mm guns visible on the 01 level forward. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USS Puget Sound (AD 38) Photographed 26 August 1988. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command