Click On Image
For Full Size Image |
Size |
Image Description |
Contributed
By |
09561001 |
150k |
USS Ballard (AVD-10) underway, 21 March 1941, at Seattle, WA.
US National Archives photo # 90-G-386827, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Rick Davis |
 |
97k |
Aft plan view of USS Ballard (AVD-10) at Mare Island Navy Yard, CA., 5 January 1942. Note motor launch stowed above the main deck between the smokestack and the after deck house, with life rafts nearby; 3"/50 dual-purpose gun atop the after deck house; large propeller guards at her stern. Two submarines under construction in the background are probably USS Wahoo (SS-238) and USS Whale (SS-239).
US National Archives photo # 19-N-26638 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the Bureau of Ships collection at the US National Achieves. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
 |
133k |
Forward plan view of USS Ballard (AVD-10) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA., 5 January 1942. Note details of her conversion from a destroyer to a seaplane tender, including: enlarged forward deck house; 3"/50 dual-purpose gun on the forecastle; four .50 caliber machine guns atop the midships deck house; 26-foot motor whaleboat stowed alongside the two remaining smokestacks. Steam is being vented over the side from a hose just aft of the midships deck house.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-26639 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the Bureau of Ships collection at the US National Achieves. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
 |
65k |
Japanese prisoners of war on board USS Ballard (AVD-10) after being rescued from a lifeboat two weeks after the Battle of Midway. They were members of the aircraft carrier IJNS Hiryu's engineering force, left behind when she was abandoned, 5 June 1942, and had escaped in one of her boats just as she sank
US National Archives photo # 80-G-79974-1, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval History and Her4itage Command |
 |
93k |
Cutter from the sunken Japanese aircraft carrier IJNS Hiryu, suspended from the starboard boat davits of USS Ballard (AVD-10), at Midway circa late June 1942. This boat had been picked up on 19 June, along with its occupants, who became prisoners of war.
USS PT-25 and USS PT-30 are among the 77-foot ELCO-type PT boats visible in the right and left background. Note Ballard's motor whaleboat, cane fender, dark-colored awnings and smokestack details.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-79981-21, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
 |
66k |
Japanese prisoners of war, survivors of the aircraft carrier IJNS Hiryu, are brought ashore at Midway following their rescue from an open lifeboat by USS Ballard (AVD-10), 19 June 1942. After being held for a few days on Midway, they were sent on to Pearl Harbor on 23 June. Note Marine guards at left and in the center background, armed with M1903 "Springfield" rifles.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-79984-28, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
 |
177k |
From bottom to top; USS Ballard (AVD-10), USS Hammondsport (APV-2), USS Vestal (AR-4) and a garbage lighter (YG) surrounded by anti-submarine nets at Pearl Harbor, 12 July 1942.
US Navy photo # NH 84001, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Forrestal Collection |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
09561016 |
225k |
USS Ballard (AVD-10) alongside USS San Francisco
(CA-38) during a refueling evolution in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 7 August 1942.
US National Archives photo # 90-G-391486, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Rick Davis |
 |
179k |
Aft plan view of USS Ballard (AVD-10) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 18, December 1943 following a refit. Changes made during the refit include;
(1) radome mounted SF surface-search radar, below her SC air-search radar,
(2) YG homing beacon on short mast aft of foremast,
(3) loud speaker mounted just above search light above bridge, and
(4) 20mm guns added at both the extreme stern and next to the YG homing beacon mast behind the new open bridge structure. Note the unusual stack caps and the pair of airplane-servicing boats moved by the boom attached to the stub mainmast.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo. |
Darryl Baker |
 |
205k |
Forward plan view of USS Ballard (AVD-10) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 18 December 1943 following a refit. USS Louisville (CA-28) is to the left and USS Chincoteague (AVP-24) is forward of Ballard
Navy Yard Mare Island photo. |
Darryl Baker |
 |
89k |
Stern view of USS Ballard (AVD-10) off Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 December 1943. Ballard was in the yard from 7 November to 30 December 1943.
|
Darryl Baker |
 |
89k |
Broadside view of USS Ballard (AVD-10) off Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 December 1943.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 8446-43. |
Darryl Baker |
 |
97k |
USS Ballard (AVD-10) at anchor off Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, 30 December 1943.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 8448-43. |
Darryl Baker |
 |
613k |
USS Ballard (AVD-10) at anchor off Naval Station Treasure Island, 30 December 1943.
Navy Yard Mare Island file # DD 267-2 AVD-10 8445-43, |
Darryl Baker |
 |
78k |
USS Ballard (AVD-10) at anchor off Naval Station Treasure Island, 30 December 1943.
US Navy photo from the San Francisco NARA, Mare Island Navy Yard Ship Files. |
Tracy White |
 |
129k |
O.H.O. Pence USS Ballard (AVD-10) crew member Ancient Order of the Deep (Crossing the Equator) card. |
Bruce Younger |
