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Whidbey (AG 141) 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 Whidbey (AG 141)

At the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 30 June 1948 during drydocking.

Photo No. NH 92556
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) on 30 June 1948
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

At the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 30 June 1948 during drydocking. Note the DUKW on her deck.

Photo No. NH 92557
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) on 30 June 1948
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

At the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 30 June 1948 during drydocking. Note the DUKW on her deck.

Photo No. 19-N-131773
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) on 30 June 1948
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

At the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard circa July 1948 at the time of her alteration for medical survey duties in the Pacific Trust Territory.

Photo No. NH 92554
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) circa July 1948
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

At Tinian Island on 4 April 1949 for a health and sanitation survey of the island.

Photo No. 80-G-498671
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) on 4 April 1949
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

With her forecastle extended, probably during her 1951 conversion to a fleet epidemological disease control ship.

Photo No. NH 92553
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) after 1951
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

The ship's extended forecastle as shown in the brochure that offered her for scrap sale in 1960. The ships in the background include Askari (ARL 30), which was transferred to Indonesia in 1971.

Photo No. None
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (Ships Histories)

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) circa 1960
USS Whidbey (AG 141)

Laid up in the Columbia River Group (Astoria, Oregon) of the Navy's Pacific Reserve Fleet, from the brochure that offered her for scrap sale in 1960.

Photo No. None
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (Ships Histories)

  USS Whidbey (AG 141) circa 1960