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Photo # NH 56398: USS Black Hawk at Inverness, Scotland, September 1918

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

USS Black Hawk (ID # 2140) --
Views of the Ship taken in 1917-1919.
This ship was originally the S.S. Santa Catalina (1913)


This page features all the views we have of USS Black Hawk during the World War I era, and of the S.S. Santa Catalina.

For selected views of this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Black Hawk (AD-9, originally ID # 2140), 1918-1948.


    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 99386

    S.S. Santa Catalina
    (American Freighter, 1913)

    In port on a snowy day, possibly when she was inspected by the Third Naval District on 14 December 1917.
    This ship was taken over by the Navy in December 1917 and renamed Black Hawk on the 26th of that month. Converted to a repair ship, she was placed in commission on 15 May 1918 as USS Black Hawk (ID # 2140). In 1920 she was reclassified as a destroyer tender, with hull number AD-9, and served actively until 1946.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 670 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 56397

    USS Black Hawk
    (ID # 2140)

    At the New York Navy Yard, 22 May 1918, showing her newly-applied pattern camouflage.
    The barge Victory is alongside.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 77KB; 555 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 56398

    USS Black Hawk
    (ID # 2140)

    Moored at Inverness, Scotland, in September 1918, while serving as Mine Force repair ship and flagship.
    Note her pattern camouflage.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 56673

    USS Black Hawk
    (ID # 2140)

    Anchored in Scottish waters, with a trawler and minesweepers alongside, circa 1919.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99691

    USS Black Hawk
    (ID # 2140)

    Moored at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, in 1919, while supporting the North Sea mine barrage clearance operation. She has at least two submarine chasers alongside.
    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by Segar, of USS SC-181, published in the cruise book "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 62.

    Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45256

    Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands


    Photographed circa mid-1919, while serving as base for the North Sea minesweeping detachment.
    Identifiable ships include:
    Tanker Hickerol (smaller ship in the center of the view); USS Black Hawk (ID # 2140), most distant ship in right center; and USS Panther, immediately to right of Black Hawk.
    Among other ships present are several trawlers, two U.S. Navy submarine chasers (at extreme left) and a British "P-Boat" patrol vessel (nearest shore in right center).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99692

    USS Black Hawk
    (ID # 2140)

    At Ponta Delgada, Azores, while returning to the U.S. from British waters, circa November 1919.
    Halftone reproduction of a panoramic photograph, published in the cruise book "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 98.

    Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 44KB; 740 x 225 pixels

     

    For selected views of this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Black Hawk (AD-9, originally ID # 2140), 1918-1948.


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


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