Camano (AKL 1, FS Design 381 Part 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 Camano (AKL 1) Moored starboard side to the Reefer dock, Apra Harbor, Guam, Marianas Islands, on 26 July 1951. At 10:10 local time ComServDiv 51 came on board with representatives of the Department of the Interior and the Pacific Micronesian Lines to conduct decommissioning ceremonies. At 10:41 the ship's commissioning pennant and ensign were hauled down and the ship was turned over to the Interior Department. Photo No. None Source: NavSource |
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USS Deal (AKL 2) Entering Sasebo harbor, Japan, circa 1954. Photo No. Unknown (US Navy photo) Source: NavSource, courtesy of Les Wright, former Deal XO |
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USS Elba (AG 132, later AKL 3) Photographed on 12 November 1948 off the Pearl Harbor channel by the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Photo No. BUSHIPS 133004 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Elba (AG 132, later AKL 3) Photographed on 12 November 1948 off the Pearl Harbor channel by the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Photo No. 19-N-132996 (BUSHIPS) Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS Estero (AKL 5) In a Marine Corps photo dated 31 March 1958. The unit producing the photo had a FPO San Francisco postal address. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA-283) |
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USS Ryer (AG 138, later AKL 9) Photographed on 14 October 1948 off the Pearl Harbor channel by the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Photo No. 19-N-132703 (BUSHIPS) Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS Sharps (AKL 10) In the Item Basin at Sasebo in early 1952. The inboard AKL is either USS Hewell (AKL-14) or USS Estero (AKL-5), as deck logs from that period show these three were always nested together when two or more were in the same port. Photo No. Unknown (US Navy photo) Source: NavSource |
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USS Hewell (AKL 14) A halftone image donated by a radioman who served on the ship in 1951-53. Photo No. NH 105033-KN Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Hewell (AKL 14) The print reproduced here bears a caption written by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. as follows: "Long Voyage Home: 'Mister Roberts' and crew of the Warner Bros.' picture of that name will sail aboard the USS "Hewell", shown here before the film company borrowed her to play the role of the 'Reluctant,' the famed AKL-601." The print is backstamped November 1954, probably when it was received from Warner. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Hewell (AKL 14) Photographed on 10 November 1954 probably while preparing for layup in the Columbia River Reserve Fleet after the filming of 'Mister Roberts' on board in September-October 1954. YO 168 and a Navy YTB are in the background. Photo No. BUSHIPS 148036, NAID 6932248 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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