Sable (IX-81): 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. Greater Buffalo Arriving at Buffalo, N.Y., on 6 August 1942 for conversion to USS Sable (IX-81). Note the towering wooden superstructure on top of the low steel hull. Only the latter was retained in the conversion. Photo No. NH 81066 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Sable (IX-81) Fitting out at Buffalo, New York, on 15 January 1943. The flight deck is still incomplete, and the name Greater Buffalo is still on the paddle boxes. Note that she has four thin smokestacks. Photo No. NH 81064 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Sable (IX-81) Photographed around the time of her commissioning on 8 April 1943. The original photo caption gives the date of the photo as 8 May 1943, but the presence of ice in the harbor suggests it was taken earlier. The location appears to be the conversion yard at Buffalo. Her four thin smokestacks have been merged into two larger ones. Photo No. 80-G-41716 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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USS Sable (IX-81) Off Traverse City, Michigan, on 10 August 1943 conducting test flights of the then-secret TDN-1 drone aircraft. Two of these large drones are on deck. Photo No. 80-G-387151 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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USS Sable (IX-81) A North American SNJ-3 trainer (Bu. No. 01876) taking off in May 1945 during training operations on the Great Lakes. Photo No. 80-G-354751 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Sable (IX-81) Photographed in June 1945 after a Wildcat fighter crashed into the barrier. Photo No. NH 43516 (also 80-G-354766) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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