Kanawha (AO-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 Kanawha (Fuel Ship No. 13) Photographed in her original configuration circa 1915-1917. Photo No. NH 105293 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Kanawha (Fuel Ship No. 13) A deck view looking aft taken at Mare Island on 22 June 1915 with sister Maumee fitting out alongside. The four masts, each with two long booms, may originally have been intended to handle the 2,182 tons of coal that these two ships were designed to carry as an alternative to their normal cargo of oil. The requirement to carry coal in later ships of this type was deleted in August 1915 and hatches suitable for handling coal are not visible in this deck view. Photo No. 19-N-8-12-35 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-E. |
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USS Maumee (Fuel Ship No. 14) Near the Mare Island Navy Yard on 25 February 1916. The smokestack on this diesel-propelled ship is smaller and further aft than the stack of her steam-propelled sister. Maumee does not yet have her armament. Photo No. 19-N-13796 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-N box 26. |
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M.A.N. Diesel Engine Being checked out after assembly at the M.A.N. works at Nurnberg, Germany. Then-Lieutenant Chester W. Nimitz may have inspected this engine during his visit to Germany in 1913, and the engines he assembled at the New York Navy Yard in 1914-1916 for USS Maumee closely resembled it. Photo No. NH 58335 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN). |
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USS Kanawha (AO-1) Photographed circa the early 1920s. Her bridge was moved back between the first two masts, possibly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in early 1919. Photo No. NH 103332 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Kanawha (AO-1) Photographed circa the early 1920s. Photo No. NH 77266 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Maumee (AO-2) Moored in reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 9 April 1941 between the catapult lighter AVC-1 and Bridgeport (AD-10). Her bridge had been moved back, displacing the second mast, circa early 1919. Photo No. Unknown (detail) Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM. |
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USS Kanawha (AO-1) Near the Mare Island Navy Yard on 6 February 1942. While being overhauled she lost her third mast. She retained her 4-4"/50 guns while adding some anti-aircraft guns. Note the triangular flanges reinforcing her narrow bridge. Photo No. 19-N-28183 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM. |
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USS Kanawha (AO-1) Near the Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 January 1943. Her 4-4"/50 guns have been replaced by 2-5"/51 guns, both aft in the enlarged 4" gun sponsons. Photo No. 19-N-39486 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM. |
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USS Maumee (AO-2) Near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 31 March 1945. The ship was re-engined and reactivated in 1941-1942 after 20 years in reserve. She is shown here with her final wartime armament including 1-5"/38 gun aft. Photo No. 19-N-97150 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM. |
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USS Maumee (AG-124) Probably shown serving as a harbor fueling ship at Shanghai between September and November 1945. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe. |
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