Vestal (Fleet Collier No. 1) Class: Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Vestal (Fleet Collier No. 1) Shown between 1909 and 1912 during her three years of service as a collier. Photo No. NH 43620 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Prometheus (Fleet Collier No. 2) Near the Mare Island Navy Yard on 15 April 1910. The inscription on her bow is "Auxiliary - U.S. Navy - Prometheus." Photo No. NH 57708 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Prometheus (Fleet Collier No. 2) Near the Mare Island Navy Yard on 15 April 1910. The long booms on the tall masts worked in pairs to operate clamshell coal buckets. The wires connecting the tops of the masts and the blocks hanging from them were key parts of this early version of the Lidgerwood Marine Transfer system. Photo No. 19-N-33-28-35 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-A-1. |
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USS Prometheus (Fleet Collier No. 2) Shown during 1910 on a postcard that was postmarked at Vallejo, Calif., on 16 November 1910. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe. |
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USS Prometheus (Fleet Collier No. 2) Shown between 1910 and 1913 during her three years of service as a collier. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe. |
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