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Photo # 19-N-23945:  USS Barnett off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 30 March 1941

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Barnett (AP-11, later APA-5), 1940-1946

USS Barnett, a 9432-ton transport, was built in 1928 in England as the civilian passenger ship Santa Maria. She was purchased by the Navy in August 1940 and commissioned the following month. During the rest of 1940 and in 1941 she took part in amphibious training exercises in the Caribbean area. In 1942, following the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan, Barnett went to the Pacific, where she participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal in August and the subsequent campaign to hold that island in the face of Japanese efforts to retake it.

Reclassified as an attack transport in February 1943, with the new hull number APA-5, Barnett spent that year and the next in the Atlantic war theater. During 1943 she was part of the amphibious forces that supported the landings on Sicily in July and at Salerno in September. During the Sicily operation, on 11 July 1943, Barnett was near-missed by an enemy bomb, which damaged the ship and killed seven of the Army troops on board. The transport was also active during the Normandy invasion in June 1944 and in the invasion of Southern France in August and September 1944.

Barnett returned to the Pacific in time to participate in the Okinawa landings in April 1945 and steamed back to the United States shortly after the end of the war with Japan. In May 1946, USS Barnett was decommissioned at Newport, Rhode Island. She was transferred to the Maritime Commission in July 1946.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Barnett (AP-11, later APA-5).


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Photo #: 19-N-23945

USS Barnett (AP-11)


Off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 30 March 1941.
Note the external degaussing cables installed on this ship's hull, and the davits for landing craft on her superstructure sides.

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

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-23943

USS Barnett (AP-11)


Off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 30 March 1941.

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

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 19-N-23944

USS Barnett (AP-11)


Off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 30 March 1941.

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

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 580 pixels

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

 
Photo #: SC 180443

Sicily Invasion, July 1943


Unloading troops and supplies on the Gela invasion beaches on "D-Day", 10 July 1943.
Broached LCVP at right is from USS Barnett (APA-5). Next LCVP to the left is from USS Monrovia (APA-31).
In the background are USS LST-338 (right) and USS LST-344 (left).
Photographed by Paris.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 505 pixels

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

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Barnett (AP-11 and APA-5). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."



  • Photo #: 80-G-15991
    USS Barnett (AP-11) underway in a harbor, 1942.
    Port bow surface view, showing the ship in pattern camouflage (probably Measure 12, Modified).

  • Photo #: 80-G-15992
    USS Barnett (AP-11) in 1942.
    Starboard broadside surface view, showing the ship in pattern camouflage (probably Measure 12, Modified).

  • Photo #: 80-G-214201
    USS Barnett (APA-5) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 29 January 1944.
    Starboard bow high aerial view, taken from a Naval Air Station Norfolk aircraft.

  • Photo #: 80-G-214202
    As 80-G-214201, but port quarter aerial view from a lower altitude.

  • Photo #: 80-G-214204
    As 80-G-214201, but taken from directly off the ship's bow, with the ship in the glare of the sun.

  • Photo #: 80-G-214205
    As 80-G-214201, but port quarter aerial view from a lower altitude. This view is very similar to 80-G-214202, but was taken from somewhat more toward the ship's side and less toward her stern.

  • Photo #: 80-G-214210
    As 80-G-214201, but taken from nearly overhead. The view is from slightly astern and off the ship's port side.

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

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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


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