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David C Shanks (T-AP 180) 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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USAT George W Goethals

Probably photographed by her builder under the name Pascagoula on trials in 1942 as fitted for wartime service.

Photo No. U.S. Maritime Commission 3147
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
USAT George W Goethals in 1942
USAT David C Shanks

Bringing the 93rd "Colored" Infantry Division home from the Pacific to San Francisco in early 1946. The division occupied Morotai, Dutch New Guinea, in 1944-45, left for home from the Philippines on 17 January 1946, and arrived on 1 February 1946. The ship is wearing the peacetime stack markings of the Army Transportation Service. One of many gorgeous photos of returning warships taken by Allied Photographers of San Francisco from mid-1945 into 1946 and later acquired by Joseph Casoly.

Photo No. NH 98762
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USAT David C Shanks circa 1 February 1946
USAT Fred C Ainsworth

In early Army peacetime service circa 1946-47 assisted by an Army tug before her postwar refit.

Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe
USAT Fred C Ainsworth circa 1946-47
USAT Fred C Ainsworth

Photographed off Fort Lawton, Washington, on 20 April 1949 in Army service after her postwar refit.

Photo No. None
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
USAT Fred C Ainsworth on 20 April 1949
USNS David C Shanks (T-AP 180)

In MSTS Pacific service on 18 April 1951.

Photo No. NH 96579 and 103785
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USNS David C Shanks (T-AP 180) on 18 April 1951
USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP 183)

Photographed circa 1952 by the Army Signal Corps.

Photo No. SC-30-182-8904-1-AH-52
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USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP 183) circa 1952
USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP 183)

Photographed during the early 1950s.

Photo No. NH 96577, also USN 1031995 (NARA RG-80-G)
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP 183) circa 1952
USNS David C Shanks (T-AP 180)

Photographed during the early 1950s with the 12th Naval District tug Red Cloud (YTB 268, MC hull 435) assisting.

Photo No. NH 103783, also USN 1031939 (NARA RG-80-G)
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USNS David C Shanks (T-AP 180) during the early 1950s
USNS David C Shanks (T-AP 180)

An overhead view of the ship in the 1950s from a photo postcard.

Photo No. None
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USNS David C Shanks (T-AP 180) during the 1950s
USNS George W Goethals (T-AP 182)

Photographed during the 1950s.

Photo No. NH 96578
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
USNS George W Goethals (T-AP 182) during the 1950s
USNS Fred C Ainsworth (T-AP 181)

Photographed on 11 August 1955 by MSTS Pacific with MSTS bands missing from her stack for unknown reasons.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
USNS Fred C Ainsworth (T-AP 181) on 11 August 1955