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Photo # NH 57639:  USS Argonne in heavy seas.

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Argonne (AP-4, later AS-10 and AG-31), 1921-1950 -- On Board and Close Up Views


This page features views taken on board USS Argonne and partial views of the ship.

For other images of this ship, see:

  • USS Argonne (AP-4, later AS-10 and AG-31), 1921-1950.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 69094

    "V" type submarines


    Alongside USS Argonne (AS-10), at San Diego, California, 10 December 1927.
    The submarines are (from left to right):
    USS V-2 (SF-5, later renamed Bass);
    USS V-1 (SF-4, later renamed Barracuda); and
    USS V-3 (SF-6, later renamed Bonita).

    Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57639

    USS Argonne
    (AS-10)

    View from above the bridge looking forward as the ship headed into heavy seas, during the 1920s or 1930s.
    The crowsnest, suspended between the forward kingposts, appears to be manned.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99129

    USS Argonne
    (AS-10)

    View looking forward from the ship's bridge, while she was passing through a Panama Canal lock, circa 1933-1935.
    Note the ship's bell and forward lookout station mounted on her kingposts.

    Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 62903

    USS Argonne
    (AS-10)

    View of the forecastle as the ship transited the Panama Canal during the late 1930s with other units of the fleet.
    Note the crowsnest suspended between the forward kingposts.

    Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-25204

    USS Argonne
    (AG-31)

    At the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 11 August 1941 during a refit.
    The ship, previously unarmed, had her long-assigned armament of 4 5"/51 guns (one visible here) and 4 3" anti-aircraft guns installed during this refit. The two forward kingposts have been removed and the crowsnest relocated high up just before the bridge. The ship is being repainted into Measure One camouflage. The car on the pier is parked in a space marked "Commanding Officer, USS Argonne".

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 19-N-25206

    USS Argonne
    (AG-31)

    At the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 11 August 1941 during a refit.
    The provisional anti-aircraft armament of 4 3"/23 guns installed during this refit in the new gun tubs just aft of the stack was replaced in May 1942 by 4 3"/50 AA guns. Note the two styles of life rafts (also added during this refit) and the cars in marked parking spaces on the pier.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 19-N-25205

    USS Argonne
    (AG-31)

    At the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 11 August 1941 during a refit.
    The ship, previously unarmed, had her long-assigned armament of 4 5"/51 guns (one visible here) and 4 3" anti-aircraft guns installed during this refit. The ship is being repainted into Measure One camouflage.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 95406

    Explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE-11) in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944


    Damage to Quonset huts atop the barge YF-681 from concussion from the explosion that destroyed USS Mount Hood. The barge is alongside USS Argonne (AG-31), which was also damaged by the blast.

    Copied from the War Diary, Manus Naval Base, for November 1944

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     

    For other images of this ship, see:

  • USS Argonne (AP-4, later AS-10 and AG-31), 1921-1950.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 15 February 2004
    New image added 5 June 2004