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Photo # NH 97999:  USS Valcour underway with awnings spread after 1965

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

USS Valcour (AVP-55, later AGF-1), 1946-1977 --
Views of the ship taken in 1961-1973


This page features photos of USS Valcour taken in 1961-1973.

For links to additional views of USS Valcour, see:

  • USS Valcour (AVP-55, later AGF-1) -- Views of the ship taken in 1946-1960.


    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 97989

    USS Valcour (AVP-55)


    Shown before departing her base at Little Creek, Virginia, for her fourteenth Middle East deployment in mid-1963.
    She now has a tripod foremast with a more modern air search radar, new ECM antennas around the stack, and a large communications antenna and a new deckhouse in place of her after 40mm gun mount, all probably fitted in an overhaul in around 1960. She retains an aviation insignia adjacent to her hull number.

    Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97990

    USS Valcour (AVP-55)


    Conducting a highline transfer with USS Boston (CAG-1) on 10 May 1964.
    She no longer displays an aviation insignia adjacent to her hull number, probably because of her administrative transfer from an aviation to a cruiser-destroyer type commander in January 1964.

    Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69837

    USS Valcour (AVP-55)


    Underway in around 1964-1965.
    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97991

    USS Valcour (AVP-55)


    Underway in a photograph released in September 1965.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97992

    USS Valcour (AGF-1)


    Departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 18 April 1966 for her new home port of Bahrain.
    This, her sixteenth Middle East deployment, lasted until she returned to Norfolk in 1972 to decommission.

    Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97999

    USS Valcour (AGF-1)


    Underway with awnings spread after 1965.

    Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1144279

    USS Valcour (AGF-1)


    Underway in July 1970.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1144279.

     
    Photo #: NH 98000

    USS Valcour (AGF-1)


    Shown in her final configuration, in a photograph released in November 1972.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98001

    Ex-USS Valcour (AGF-1)


    Hulk moored at the Solomons Branch of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory after being towed there from Norfolk on 20 March 1973.
    Ex-Valcour was used to study the effects of electro-magnetic pulses on her electronic equipment at the EMPRESS facility at Point Patience. The poles of this facility, which transmitted EMP signals to the ship, are visible in the background.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     

    For links to additional views of USS Valcour, see:

  • USS Valcour (AVP-55) -- Views of the ship taken in 1946-1960.


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


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