Conestoga (AT-54) 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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S.S. Conestoga Conestoga was one of a pair of large seagoing tugs built to the same design by the Maryland Steel Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Transportation Line of Philadelphia in 1904-1905, the other being Monocacy (later USS Genesee). Designed to tow coal barges along the U.S. East Coast, they were among the largest tugs in the U.S. merchant marine. This drawing was published in the August 1904 issue of the journal Marine Engineering. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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S.S. Conestoga (SP-1128) Shown in commercial service before World War I. Photo No. NH 89794 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Genesee (SP-1116) At Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918. Wartime fittings included the gun platform and 3"/50 gun forward and the crowsnest on the foremast. Photo No. NH 53873 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Conestoga (AT-54) At San Diego in 1921 shortly before she disappeared at sea enroute to duty as station ship at American Samoa. She retained her 3"/50 gun for her Samoan service, but here her gun platform also bears two more guns that may be 6-pounders. Photo No. NH 71299 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Genesee (AT-55) In service on the Asiatic Station between 1923 and 1926. Her gun platform carried no weapons between 1920 and 1941. Photo No. NH 103416 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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