Keokuk (AN-5): 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 Keokuk (CM-8) Near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 1 November 1942. This ship was reclassified from a net layer (AN-5) to a minelayer (CM-8) in May 1942 but probably underwent no modifications at that time as she had been initially configured for laying both mines and nets. Photo No. 19-N-36498 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Keokuk (CM-8) Near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 1 November 1942. This stern view shows her mine rails and the short kingpost with its boom between them. The mine rails were portable and could be removed and stowed on board the ship when she was handling nets. Photo No. 19-N-36500 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Keokuk (AKN-4) At San Francisco, California, on 27 November 1944. Her minimal conversion to a net cargo ship (AKN) in late 1943 appears to have included the enlargement of the two openings in the stern, and the lengthening of the stern kingpost and its boom. Photo No. 19-N-81342 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Keokuk (AKN-4) At San Francisco, California, on 27 November 1944. Photo No. 19-N-81345 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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