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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Aquarius (AKA-16), 1943-1946

USS Aquarius, a 14,200-ton Andromeda class attack cargo ship built at Kearny, New Jersey, was commissioned in August 1943 with a U.S. Coast Guard crew. She went to the Pacific a month later and took part in her first mission, the Kwajalein invasion, in January & February 1944. During the next fifteen months, Aquarius was present at the invasions of Guam, Peleliu, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. In September-December 1945, after a West Coast overhaul, she supported occupation activities in Japan and elsewhere in Asia. USS Aquarius decommissioned in May 1946 and was stricken from the Navy list in November of that year.

This page features views of USS Aquarius (AKA-16).

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Photo #: USMC 86265

USS Aquarius (AKA-16)
(left) and
USS Titania (AKA-13)

At Pavuvu, Russell Islands, 28 April 1944, after bringing veterans of the Cape Gloucester Campaign to a rest camp.
LCPs in the foreground, from USS Wayne (APA-54), are being used as water taxiis.
Photographed by Fitzgerald.
Note SC-2 radar antenna mounted atop Aquarius' forward kingposts.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 600 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

Photo #: USMC 86251

USS Titania (AKA-13)


At Pavuvu, Russell Islands, 28 April 1944, after bringing veterans of the Cape Gloucester Campaign to a rest camp.
USS Aquarius (AKA-16) is on Titania's far side. LCVPs in the left foreground are from USS Wayne (APA-54).
Photographed by Fitzgerald.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


While the Naval Historical Center has no other views of USS Aquarius, the National Archives appears to hold at least one more, as described below:

The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in the page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.".


  • Photo #: 80-G-59705
    USS Aquarius (AKA-16). Port broadside surface view, taken in 1945-46.


    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The image above is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.".



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    16 May 1999