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Albert M Boe (T-AKV 6) 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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SS Albert M Boe

Shown while being operated by Wessel, Duval & Co's West Coast Line between 30 October 1945 and 15 November 1946. The "H" logo on the stack and on the line's red flag honored the company's founder, A. Hemenway.

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Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)


SS Albert M Boe in 1945-46
USAT Cardinal O'Connell

Passing under the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco on 12 February 1948 at the end of a voyage that brought returning American World War II dead from the western and central Pacific to Fort Mason, the US Army San Francisco Port of Entry.

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Source: NavSource


USAT Cardinal O'Connell on 12 February 1948
USNS Albert M Boe (T-AKV 6)

In MSTS service between February 1950 and January 1954 in an American port with two automobiles on Number 3 hatch cover.

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Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)


USNS Albert M Boe (T-AKV 6) in 1950-54
USNS Cardinal O'Connell (T-AKV 7)

In MSTS service between February 1950 and January 1954 showing the three goal-post type masts that were a distinctive feature of the Z-EC2-S-C5 large-hatch Liberty ship variant.

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Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)


USNS Cardinal O'Connell (T-AKV 7) in 1950-54
Cannery ship Star of Kodiak

The former SS Albert M Boe photographed on 21 June 2011 in use as the main office of the Trident Seafoods cannery in Kodiak, Alaska.

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Source: Wikimedia Commons, from the Flickr site of James Brooks of Juneau, Alaska


Cannery ship Star of Kodiak on 21 June 2011