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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Mobjack (AGP-7, originally AVP-27), 1943-1946

USS Mobjack, a 1,760-ton motor torpedo boat tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in October 1943. Launched as a Barnegat class small seaplane tender in September 1942, she was designated for conversion to a PT boat tender and reclassified from AVP-27 to AGP-7 in March 1943. After shakedown, she departed the West Coast in December 1943 and commenced duty tending PT boats in the Solomon Islands. In March 1944 she helped establish a PT boat base in the Bismarcks at Emirau, and in May she returned to the Solomons to tend PTs, PGMs, and LCIs in the Treasury Islands. In July she joined operations in New Guinea and tended PT boats at Aitape. Between September 1944 and February 1945 she supported PT boats and seaplanes at Morotai Island.

Mobjack departed the western New Guinea region in April 1945 and moved to the Philippines, where she tended PT boats at Palawan and Mindoro. In June she joined the force preparing to assault Balikpapan and took part in the landings there in July. Still there at the end of the war, she returned to the Philippines in September to help decommission PT boats, and then left in November for San Francisco and her own inactivation. Mobjack was decommissioned and transferred to the Coast and Geodetic Survey in August 1946. She served as C&GS Pioneer (OSS-31) until sold in May 1966.

This page features all our views of USS Mobjack.


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

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Photo #: 19-N-51132

USS Mobjack (AGP-7)


Photographed at Houghton, Washington, on 17 September 1943, the date of her commissioning.

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

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-51133

USS Mobjack (AGP-7)


Photographed at Houghton, Washington, on 17 September 1943, the date of her commissioning.

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

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-51137

USS Mobjack (AGP-7)


Photographed at Houghton, Washington, on 17 September 1943, the date of her commissioning.

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

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-51140

USS Mobjack (AGP-7)


Fitting out at Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943.

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

Online Image: 114KB; 595 x 765 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-51141

USS Mobjack (AGP-7)


Fitting out at Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943.
Three less-advanced Barnegat-class AVPs are also visibile fitting out afloat.

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

Online Image: 158KB; 600 x 765 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-51142

USS Mobjack (AGP-7)


Fitting out at Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943.

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

Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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

 


The images presented below show a part of USS Mobjack in a view of another subject:

Photo #: 19-N-51144

USS Onslow (AVP-48)


Fitting out at the Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943.
The unit outboard with part of her funnel on deck is probably USS Orca (AVP-49). The unit in the lower left is USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), and the unit in the lower right with the crane is USS Mobjack (AGP-7). The old paddle-wheel ferry is named West Seattle.

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

Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 625 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-51145

USS Onslow (AVP-48)


Fitting out at the Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington, on 10 July 1943.
The unit on the left behind the crane is USS Mobjack (AGP-7).

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

Online Image: 109KB; 600 x 765 pixels

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

 


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


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Page made 16 February 2001
New images added 10 October 2001