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Photo # NH 99893:  USS Camden underway off NAS Pensacola, Florida, 31 January 1927

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Camden (AS-6, later IX-42), 1917-1946 --
Views taken circa the mid-1920s and later


This page features all the views we have concerning USS Camden after her mid-1920s modification to single-smokestack configuration.

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Camden (ID # 3143, later AS-6 & IX-42), 1917-1946.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 72935

    USS Camden
    (AS-6)

    With two other submarine tenders in the distance, circa the middle or later 1920s.
    USS Savannah (AS-8) is furthest from the camera, in the left center. USS Bushnell (AS-2) is in the center.

    Donation of Lieutenant Gustave J. Freret, USN (Retired), 1970.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 36KB; 740 x 365 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55046

    USS Camden
    (AS-6)

    Off Pensacola, Florida, 23 December 1924.
    Ships in the distance are: USS Savannah (AS-8), in center, and USS Bushnell (AS-2), at left.
    The original print was autographed in June 1967 by Admiral Thomas C. Hart, USN (Retired), who used Camden as his flagship from May 1930 to January 1931, while he was Commander, Control Force, U.S. Fleet. He was a Rear Admiral at that time.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 630 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 74636

    USS Camden
    (AS-6)

    Off Gonaives, Haiti, in 1925, with several submarines alongside.
    USS Shawmut (CM-4) is in the left background.

    Donation of Lieutenant Gustave J. Freret, USN (Retired), 1971.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99893

    USS Camden
    (AS-6)

    Underway off Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, 31 January 1927.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46418

    USS Maryland
    (BB-46);
    USS Camden (AS-6);
    two "S" type submarines; and
    two V-1 class submarines

    In port in May 1927.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 154KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100459

    USS Camden
    (AS-6)

    Photographed circa the middle or later 1920s, with ten "S" type submarines alongside. The submarines are (on Camden's starboard side, from left to right):
    USS S-18 (SS-123);
    unidentified Electric Boat type "S-boat";
    USS S-19 (SS-124);
    USS S-12 (SS-117); and an
    unidentified Government type "S-boat".
    (on Camden's port side, from left to right):
    unidentified Government type "S-boat";
    USS S-7 (SS-112);
    USS S-8 (SS-113);
    USS S-9 (SS-114); and
    USS S-3 (SS-107).

    Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham, USN.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 165KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42573

    Control Force submarines and their tenders at Christobal, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1923.


    The tenders are (from left to right): Savannah (AS-8), Bushnell (AS-2), Beaver (AS-5) and Camden (AS-6). Submarines are mostly "R" type boats, among them R-23 (SS-100) and R-25 (SS-102), both in the nest alongside Savannah's port quarter. The larger submarine alongside Savannah's bow may be S-1 (SS-105), with her large seaplane hangar.
    Photographed by A.E. Wells.

    Courtesy of Commander Christopher Noble, USN (Retired), 1967.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100482

    St. Thomas, Virgin Islands


    View of St. Thomas harbor, circa 1928, with several U.S. Navy ships present. The larger ones are (from left to right, in center):
    USS Bushnell (AS-2);
    USS Oglala (CM-4);
    USS Wright (AV-1); and
    USS Camden (AS-6).
    Other ships present include a Navy tug, three minesweepers, a destroyer and a merchant steamer.

    Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham, USN.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 89402

    USS Seattle
    (IX-39)

    At Pier 92, North River, New York City, while serving as a receiving ship during or shortly after World War II.
    At right is USS Camden (IX-42).

    Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1979.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     


    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Camden (ID # 3143, later AS-6 & IX-42), 1917-1946.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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