Manhasset (YAG-8, later AG-47) 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 YAG-9 In Navy service on 17 February 1942 as a guardship off New York. She was placed in service before being converted and is carrying no armement. Photo No. NH 84622 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS YAG-8 Photographed by the New York Navy Yard on 25 March 1942, one day before being placed in service. She has completed conversion to a guardship and appears to be carrying a 4"/50 gun at each end and two of the planned four 20mm guns. Photo No. 19-N-32046 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS YAG-9 At Sullivan Drydock, Brooklyn, N.Y. on 30 March 1942 after arriving there for conversion to a guardship. She was converted in the same manner as YAG-8 but was then immediately further converted to a weather ship. Photo No. 19-N-29082 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM) |
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USS YAG-9 At Sullivan Drydock, Brooklyn, N.Y. on 30 March 1942 after arriving there for conversion to a guardship. She was converted in the same manner as YAG-8 but was then immediately further converted to a weather ship. Photo No. 19-N-29083 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Manhasset (AG-47) At the Boston Navy Yard on 14 September 1943 after reconfiguration as a weather ship and shortly before being transferred to the Coast Guard. Note that as a weather ship she retained her gun platforms fore and aft but her mainmast was replaced by a lighter mast stepped further forward. She lacked the weather balloon releasing tower of the Manasquan (AG-36) class, having been fitted with another type of balloon releasing facilities. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office |
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