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Photo # NH 99617: USS Aroostook in a harbor during the 1920s

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USS Aroostook (CM-3), 1917-1943 --
Overall Views taken in 1920-1940


This page features all the overall available views of USS Aroostook (CM-3) in 1920-1940, and provides links to other images concerning her.

For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • S.S. Bunker Hill (American Coastal Passenger Ship, 1907);
  • USS Aroostook (ID # 1256) -- Views taken in 1917-1919;
  • USS Aroostook (CM-3) -- On Board and Close-up Views taken in 1920-1940;
  • USS Aroostook (CM-3) -- Miscellaneous Views taken in 1920-1940; and
  • USS Aroostook (AK-44) -- Views taken in 1941-1943.


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

    Photo #: NH 69311

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    In a harbor, circa the early 1920s.

    Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99613

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    At anchor, circa the early 1920s.

    Collection of Lieutenant Oscar W. Levy, USN (Supply Corps), Retired.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82901

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    In dry dock at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 November 1923.

    Donation of Mrs. Kelly Green, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 435 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82794

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    At Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, 12 January 1924.

    Donation of Mrs. Kelly Green, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99612

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    Ship's Christmas menu for 1926, featuring photographs of the ship and of her Commanding Officer, Commander R.W. Cabaniss, USN.

    Collection of Lieutenant Oscar W. Levy, USN (Supply Corps), Retired.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67506

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    In harbor during the 1920s or early 1930s.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99617

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    In a harbor during the 1920s, with a PN-type patrol seaplane on her after deck and another moored off her port side.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57694

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    Dressed with flags, February 1926.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 81276

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    Underway circa 1927, with her crew's bedding airing along the rails forward and amidships.
    Photographed by Gustave J. Freret.

    Donation of Lieutenant Gustave J. Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94166

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    Underway at sea, with a Martin SC-2 torpedo plane on her after deck, during the later 1920s.

    Collection of Lieutenant Oscar W. Levy, USN (Supply Corps)-Retired.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57695

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    Anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City, on 2 May 1927.
    The torpedo plane on her deck (probably a Martin SC-2) is marked "2-T-4" on its upper wing.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99618

    USS Aroostook     (CM-3)

    Underway in February 1929.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 132KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     

    Note: The photograph described below has long been identified as showing USS Aroostook (CM-3). However, it actually is a view of the nearly identical USS Shawmut (CM-4). She can be readily identified by the searchlight mounted below her foremast lookout platform and a taller superstructure immediately aft of her mainmast, features which Aroostook did not have:

  • Photo # 80-G-1024884: USS Shawmut (CM-4) at anchor with seven submarines alongside, circa the mid-1920s.


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Aroostook (CM-3). The following list features some of these images:


  • Photo #: 80-G-1017199
    USS Aroostook (CM-3) off San Diego, California, at the start of a voyage to Panama, 30 December 1920.
    Port broadside low aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1017200
    As 80-G-1017199, but starboard bow (very tight on the bow) aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1017202
    As 80-G-1017199, but port broadside low aerial view, taken from somewhat toward the stern.


  • Photo #: 80-G-1017201
    USS Aroostook (CM-3) alongside a pier at Naval Air Station San Diego, California, 12 October 1922.
    Port bow high aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1017226
    USS Aroostook (CM-3) off Oahu, Hawaii Territory, 27 April 1925. Taken from an aircraft based on USS Wright (AV-1).
    Starboard quarter low aerial view. The ship's extreme stern has been cropped out of the left side of this image.

  • Photo #: 80-G-462935
    USS Aroostook (CM-3) on 28 February 1926, possibly off Honolulu, Hawaii.
    Port quarter aerial view, rather toward the broadside. The ship is seen distantly, only taking up about one-sixth of the width of the image.

  • Photo #: 80-G-466198
    USS Aroostook (CM-3) at anchor in San Diego Harbor, California, on 4 August 1928.
    Starboard broadside aerial view, slightly toward the bow.

  • Photo #: 80-G-690788
    As 80-G-466198, but port bow high aerial view.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

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    For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • S.S. Bunker Hill (American Coastal Passenger Ship, 1907);
  • USS Aroostook (ID # 1256) -- Views taken in 1917-1919;
  • USS Aroostook (CM-3) -- On Board and Close-up Views taken in 1920-1940;
  • USS Aroostook (CM-3) -- Miscellaneous Views taken in 1920-1940; and
  • USS Aroostook (AK-44) -- Views taken in 1941-1943.


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