Photo #: NH 73774
USS Michigan (BB-27)
Taking on coal from USS Jason (Collier # 12), while off
Vera Cruz, Mexico, in April-June 1914.
Note ship's band atop Turret # 2, playing to encourage the crewmen
at work moving coal.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 78281
USS Jason (AC-12)
Entering Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, with a deck load of seaplane
barges, during the early 1920s.
The barges are (from the front) YV-21, YV-23 and
YV-24.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 94175
USS Jason (AV-2)
View on the well deck, port side looking forward, in Far Eastern
waters, circa 1931-1932. Planes on deck are Martin T4M-1s of
Torpedo Squadron Five.
Collection of Lieutenant Oscar W. Levy, USN (Supply Corps), (Retired).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 94188
Vought O2U-3 or O2U-4 "Corsair" floatplane,
of Scouting Squadron Eleven
Is catapulted from USS Houston (CA-30), in Far Eastern
waters, circa 1931-1932.
USS Jason (AV-2) is in the left distance.
Collection of Lieutenant Oscar W. Levy, USN (Supply Corps), (Retired).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102780
USS Jason (AC-12)
At Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1924.
Several submarines are in the foreground, including (from left
to right):
USS S-19 (SS-124);
USS O-9 (SS-70);
USS R-26 (SS-103) -- probably--; and
USS O-2 (SS-63).
Courtesy of Chief Boatswain's Mate George Behrens, USN (Retired),
1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 100770
USS Orion (AC-11) or USS Jason (AC-12)
At a Caribbean area base, probably the Coco Solo Submarine Base,
Panama Canal Zone, circa the mid-1920s.
USS O-2 (SS-63) is at right.
Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1986.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 45236
Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington
Aerial photograph taken in the mid-1930s.
Alongside the pier in center are the aircraft tender (ex-collier)
Jason (AV-2), laid up in 1932 and sold in 1936, and the
crane ship Kearsarge.
Also present are the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2)
and Saratoga (CV-3).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102415
USS Jason (Collier # 12)
Afloat just after launching, at the Maryland Steel Company, Sparrows
Point, Baltimore, Maryland, 16 November 1912.
Tugs are en route to take her to the fitting out berth.
Donation of Mrs. William E. Votruba, 1990.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99082-KN (color)
USS Jason (AV-2)
Menu cover for the Commander Aircraft, Asiatic Fleet Christmas
dinner, held on board the ship at Manila, Philippine Islands,
on 25 December 1931.
Collection of Oscar W. Levy, who served in USS Houston
(CA-30) in 1931-1933, while she was flagship of the Asiatic Fleet.
U.S. Navy Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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