Lt James E Robinson (T-AKV 3) 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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USNS Lt James E Robinson (T-AKV 3) Probably photographed in the early 1950s. Photo No. USN (80-G) 1031933 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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USNS Lt James E Robinson (T-AK 274) Note the stack extension that was added to many Navy Victory ships around the beginning of the 1960s (although AK 259 had one when acquired from the merchant marine in 1951). Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Lt James E Robinson (T-AK 274) Photographed on 10 October 1961 by the Base Squadron at RAAF Base Pearce, located in Bullsbrook north of Perth, Western Australia. She has the equipment for the ONR Indian Ocean special operation on board, of which two trailers on top of hatches 3 and 4 are visible here, and has probably nearly completed that operation. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Pvt Joseph F Merrell (T-AKV 4) At the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Calif., in the early or mid-1950s. Photo No. NH 103608, also 80-G-1031945 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (from the MSC collection) |
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USNS Pvt Joseph F Merrell (T-AK 275) A port quarter view after 1960. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Pvt Joseph F Merrell (T-AK 275) In McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, on 9 January 1963 to offload cargo for Operation Deep Freeze 63. She performed a similar mission in January 1964. Photo No. 822241, also NH 103612 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Pvt Joseph F Merrell (T-AK 275) Down at the stern and surrounded by oil containment booms in San Juan Bay, California, after having her port side aft (not visible here) torn wide open in a collision on 29 December 1973. Photo No. NH 103609-KN Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Sgt Jack J Pendleton (T-AK 276) Underway in San Francisco Bay in a photo processed by the MSTS Pacific lab at the Naval Supply Center at Oakland, Calif. The name on the tug is probably Red Wing. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Sgt Jack J Pendleton (T-AK 276) Probably taken on 30 November 1963. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Sgt Jack J Pendleton (T-AK 276) Photographed on 25 September 1973 by an aircraft from USS Hancock (CVA 19) hard aground on the reef around Triton Island, the westernmost and southernmost of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. Note that her forefoot is clear of the water and that her boiler is still steaming. Note also the extra-large hatch covers. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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