Photo #: NH 100360
Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California
View of the Navy Department wharf on Yerba Buena Island, looking
southeast, 1921.
The receiving ship Boston (1887-1946) is at left, with
an Army ambulance boat and several launches on the near side
of the wharf.
Collection of Eugene R. O'Brien.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 100361
Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California
View looking southward over the wharf area, from the eastern
end of Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island, 1921. Long Wharf
is in the foreground, lined with rowing boats on davits. Beyond
is Navy Wharf, with the receiving ship Boston (1887-1946)
at far left. The Lighthouse Wharf is beyond that.
Collection of Eugene R. O'Brien.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 89404
USS Boston (1887-1946)
Tied up at Yerba Buena Island, while serving as receiving ship
there, shortly before World War II.
This ship was renamed Despatch on 9 August 1940 and designated
IX-2 on 17 February 1941.
Note the old destroyers at left, lightship at right and San Francisco
Bay ferryboats in the distance.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 43686
USS Undaunted (AT-58, later YT-125)
In San Francisco Bay, California, probably off Yerba Buena Island,
during the 1920s or 1930s.
The receiving ship Boston is partially visible at right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 74471
USS Boston (1887-1946)
View in the crew's space, on the lower deck's forward end, taken
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 23 December 1918, following
Boston's conversion for receiving ship service.
Note the folding-leg mess tables stowed in the overhead.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 74472
USS Boston (1887-1946)
View in the crew's space, on the lower deck looking aft, with
the mainmast at left. Taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
23 December 1918, following Boston's conversion for service
as the receiving ship at Yerba Buena Island, California.
Note the electric lights in the overhead.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 74473
USS Boston (1887-1946)
View in the crew's space, on the lower deck looking aft. Taken
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 23 December 1918, following
Boston's conversion for service as the receiving ship
at Yerba Buena Island, California.
Note the expansion loop in the pipes in upper left.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 74474
USS Boston (1887-1946)
View inside the deckhouse at after end of the main deck, showing
wooden roof trusses and other structural elements. Taken at the
Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 23 December 1918, following
Boston's conversion for service as the receiving ship
at Yerba Buena Island, California.
Note the steam-heating radiators along the deckhouse sides, and
the semi-finished oars on the deck.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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