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Photo # NH 80126: Liberty party from USS Isabel, off Amoy, China, 1933

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USS Isabel (PY-10) -- Miscellaneous Views


This page features miscellaneous views concerning USS Isabel (PY-10), mainly photographs taken from her.

For selected views related to this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10), 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 80125

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    Motor whaleboat seen from astern, while tied up alongside in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, circa 1933.
    Note the boat's 48-star flag.

    Courtesy of Captain G. Knox Bishop, U.S. Air Force, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 540 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80126

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    Motor whaleboat underway with a liberty party on board, off Amoy, China, 1933.

    Courtesy of Captain G. Knox Bishop, U.S. Air Force, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 83549

    USS Barker
    (DD-213)

    Alongside another ship, probably USS Isabel (PY-10), off the south China coast, circa 1938.
    Only Barker's after portion is visible, including a boat and its davits, the mainmast and the top of the after superstructure.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 51KB; 435 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 81674

    Ichang, China


    Hillside sign on the bank of the Yangtze River, reading "Welcome Chiang Kai-Shek", May 1937.
    Photographed from USS Isabel (PY-10), which was carrying Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet, on an upriver inspection trip.

    Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Yarnell, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 81675

    Chinese Junk


    Becalmed while under sail on the Yangtze River in May 1937.
    Photographed from USS Isabel (PY-10), which was carrying Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet, on an upriver inspection trip.
    Note oars stowed amidships on this junk.

    Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Yarnell, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 81672

    Large Chinese Junk


    Being rowed by its crew, on the middle Yangtze River in May 1937.
    Photographed from USS Isabel (PY-10), which was carrying Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet, on an upriver inspection trip.
    Note standing position of the oarsmen.

    Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Yarnell, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78397

    Mount Mayon, Mindoro, Philippine Islands


    Photographed from USS Isabel (PY-10), about 25 February 1937.

    Courtesy of Vice Admiral J. Sylvester, USN (Retired), 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     

    For selected views related to this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10), 1917-1946.


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


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