Edenton (ATS 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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ATS Preliminary Design No. 4664 The preliminary design developed for the cost and feasibility study of the ATS forwarded by BUSHIPS to CNO on 24 March 1961. The pencil marks, including the outline of the bow as extended for the heavy lift gear, are of later date. Note that the ship was somewhat smaller and less complex than as ultimately built. Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG 19 Entry P 26 Box 27 |
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ATS Preliminary Design No. 5817 The bow lift facilities of the FY 1966 ATS, SCB Project No. 719.66, essentially as built. Rigs are shown for a 300 ton tidal lift (in which the load was lifted off the bottom by the tide but remained submerged), a 150-ton dynamic lift, and a 60-ton dynamic lift. Photo No. None Source: NARA: RG 19 Entry P 26 Box 27 |
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USS Edenton (ATS 1) Photographed by her builder in 1970. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Beaufort (ATS 2) Undergoing builders trials in the North Sea, circa late 1971 before being delivered to Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 5 January 1972. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA-164) |
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USS Beaufort (ATS 2) Undergoing builders trials off Lowestoft UK, circa late 1971. Photo No. Unknown Source: NavSource |
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USS Brunswick (ATS 3) An undated broadside view. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Edenton (ATS 1) At Little Creek, Va., on 20 June 1974. Photo by Ted Stone. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Beaufort (ATS 2) Off Subic Bay on 8 July 1979 while recovering sections of a P-3B Orion patrol aircraft that crashed in the bay on 27 June 1979 one mile short of the runway at NAS Cubi Point. Photo No. K-123719 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USS Brunswick (ATS 1) Being positioned by a harbor tug in Agana Bay, Guam, in August 1980 while having a ship under tow. Photo No. DN-SC-90-07703 Source: RG-330 |
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USS Beaufort (ATS 2) Photographed on 17 April 1986. Photo No. DN-SC-86-00174 Source: RG-330 |
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USS Edenton (ATS 1) At anchor on 8 August 1989 off the Virginia Capes. Photo No. DN-ST-89-11246 Source: RG-330 |
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USS Edenton (ATS 1) Taking position on 3 October 1991 in front of the battleship Wisconsin (BB 64) in preparation for towing the vessel to the Philadelphia Shipyard's Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility. The Wisconsin was decommissioned on September 30, 1991. Photo No. DN-ST-92-03956 Source: RG 330 |
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USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) Moored at the US Coast Guard Yard at Baltimore, MD, on 6 August 1999. Photo No. US Coast Guard # 990806-I-9954H-503 Source: NavSource, from the US Coast Guard Historian's Office |
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USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) Moored pierside at Dutch Harbor Alaska, on 7 July 2009. Note that the Coast Guard had made subsantial modifications to the ship since the 1999 photo, above. Photo No. None Source: NavSource, photo by Cypherak |
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