Annapolis (AGMR 1) 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 Annapolis (AGMR 1) Underway at slow speed in New York Harbor on 12 June 1964 soon after completing conversion. Her five antenna masts, all on the centerline, included a slender foremast, two tall lattice towers supporting large log periodic antennas, and two shorter masts supporting large horizontal circular arrays. There were no long wire LF antennas between the masts. The forward aircraft elevator is functional (the after one is not) and there is a small landing pad to port amidships for visiting helicopters. Photo No. NH 106715 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Annapolis (AGMR 1) Underway at slow speed in New York Harbor on 12 June 1964 soon after completing conversion. Photo No. USN 1103575 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) via www.navy-radio.com/ships/agmr1 |
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USS Annapolis (AGMR 1) Underway circa 1964 in a souvenir photo. Photo No. None Source: www.navy-radio.com/ships/agmr1 |
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USS Annapolis (AGMR 1) Underway in 1964-66. The satcom antenna has not yet been installed over the bridge. Photo No. NH 74450 Source: www.navy-radio.com/ships/agmr1 (best copy) |
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USS Annapolis (AGMR 1) Photographed in May 1966 by aircraft from USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63). Photo No. USN 1116573 Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Annapolis (AGMR 1) A view of the ship refueling from Caliente (AO 53) off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 showing the satellite communications dish antenna recently installed over the bridge. Photo No. None Source: NavSource. Photo by Bill Doughtery, USS Caliente |
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USS Annapolis (AGMR 1) At anchor at either Taranto Italy or Athens Greece, circa July-August 1969. Photo No. None Source: NavSource, courtesy Charles Swartz, DCFA USS Annapolis |
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 "AGMR 2 Major Communications Relay Ship, FY 1964 Program, Conv. of SCB Project No. 215 AKV (ex CVE 105 Class)" This barely legible sketch by BUSHIPS Code 440 (the Hull Design Branch) dated December 1963 shows the design for the second AKV (CVE 105 class) conversion to AGMR that was to follow Annapolis. It was attached to a poorly-copied letter from BUSHIPS to CNO dated 19 December 1963. Except for the two log periodic antennas the antenna fit was completely different from that in Annapolis. The profile view shows from bow to stern five LF long wire antennas carried by three masts, two 10/30 MC (megacycles) LF log periodic antennas on the second and third masts, a helix house at the base of the heavy second mast serving what was probably a conformal helical antenna inside the mast, two boxes filled with an "X" for 4/12 and 10/30 MC antennas, the after one having a Miser satellite antenna in a spherical radome on top, a 2/6 MC cone antenna under the after log periodic antenna, and an elevator serving helicopter stowage in the after part of the original hangar deck. The boxes filled with an "X" are circular on the plan view (the after one being offset to port), suggesting they were related to the tower near the stern of the later Blue Ridge (AGC 19) class, which was also to carry a Miser antenna and radome. As in the AGC 19 class, boats were to be carried in sponsons on the sides. Photo No. None Source: NHHC CNO 00 ("double zero") files, declassified through 1974 and now at NARA |