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

USS Mount Hood (AE-11), 1944-1944

USS Mount Hood, a 13910-ton ammunition ship, was built at Wilmington, North Carolina, and converted for Naval service at Norfolk, Virginia. Commissioned in July 1944, she transited the Panama Canal in August and was assigned to the South Pacific area to provide ammunition to the fighting forces. On the morning of 10 November 1944, while she was moored at the Manus Naval Base, Admiralty Islands, Mount Hood's cargo of explosives detonated in a massive blast. The ship was utterly destroyed by the accident, which killed all those on board her. Damage and casualties were also inflicted on ships anchored as far as 2000 yards away. Personnel casualties on Mount Hood and on other vessels totalled 45 known dead, 327 missing and 371 injured.

This page features views of USS Mount Hood (AE11).

For images of the Mount Hood explosion and its aftermath, see: USS Mount Hood Explosion, 10 November 1944

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-70330

USS Mount Hood (AE-11)


Off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 16 July 1944.
She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 18F.

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

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 575 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 45735

USS Mount Hood (AE-11)


Underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 6 August 1944.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 


For images of the Mount Hood explosion and its aftermath, see: USS Mount Hood Explosion, 10 November 1944


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


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30 September 1999