Lodestone (ADG-8) 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 YDG-8 Photographed by her builder on 14 June 1944. Photo No. 19-N-69085 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS YDG-8 Photographed by her builder on 21 June 1944. Photo No. 19-N-69080 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS YDG-8 Photographed by her builder on 21 June 1944. Photo No. 19-N-69082 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS YDG-10 With a likely customer, USS YMS-293, alongside circa 1945. A primary function of the YDGs was to neutralize the magnetic signature of ships like the wooden-hulled YMSs that operated where magnetic mines might be present. Photo No. NH 84978 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS YDG-11 Photographed by her builder on 14 August 1945. Photo No. 19-N-88322 Source: U. S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS YDG-8 Probably photographed in San Francisco Bay soon after her return to the West Coast in February 1946. Photo No. NH 77377 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS YDG-10 Probably photographed in San Francisco Bay soon after her return to the West Coast in April 1946. Photo No. NH 77378 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Ampere (ADG-11) Photographed between 1951 and 1957 after her reactivation, probably in Japanese waters. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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