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SS Edgecombe docked after launching, at the Skinner and Eddy Corporation shipyard, Seattle, WA., in 1918. Turned over to the
Navy after completion, she served as USS Edgecombe (ID # 3894) from December 1918 to April 1919.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Catalog #: NH 54340 |
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USS Edgecombe (ID 3894)
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USS Edgecombe (ID 3894) at Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 16 March 1919. The original photograph is printed on postal card stock,
and has a small photo of a man (possibly a member of the ship's crew) pasted on its lower right corner. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005
US Naval History and Heritage Command Catalog #: NH 102944, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005. |
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USS Rigel (AD-13)
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USS Rigel (AD-13) moored at San Diego. The raked masts and smokestack behind her belong to
USS Buffalo (AD-8). Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, served as CO from 17 June 1931 to 30 September 1933. He has signed this
photo.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 58108 |
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USS Rigel (AD-13) at San Diego, 9 April 1941, one day before being reclassified as a Base Repair Ship, ARb-1.
She is moored next to the marine railway at the Destroyer Base and is helping to fit out the nearby fishing vessels as small patrol craft (YP) or minesweepers (AMc).
This semi-active ship appears to have received few if any alterations since the 1920s.
US Naval History and Heritage Command,
Photo No. NH 95609 (detail), courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green |
USS Rigel (AR-11)
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USS Rigel (AR-11) date and location unknown. Photo is from the Rigel Register Newsletter. |
Todd Cabral |
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USS Rigel (AR-11) moored pierside at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 20 April 1942.
Photo from Life Magazine collection, photographer Ralph Morse. For educational and non-commercial use. |
John Chiquoine |
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USS Rigel (AR-11) anchored in Milne Bay, New Guinea Jan 1944. |
Photo by RADM J. O Cobb USN |
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Stern view of USS Rigel (AR-11) dry docked at Manila, P.I. late fall 1945. |
Jeff Gates, PH3/c USS Rigel |
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USS Rigel (AR-11) at anchor, in Manila Bay, P.I., late fall 1945. |
Jeff Gates, Photographers Mate Third Class USS Rigel |
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US Rigel (AR-11) crew members raising the "homeward bound pennant," Manila Bay, P.I., late fall 1945. |
Jeff Gates, PH3/c USS Rigel |
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USS Rigel (AR-11) refueling at sea while enroute back to the US, date unknown. |
Jeff Gates, PH3/c USS Rigel |
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USS Rigel (AR-11) at anchor, date and location unknown. Rigel received extensive repairs and alterations to
her superstructure at Pearl Harbor between July 1941 and April 1942 and then served continuously in the western Pacific through the end of World War II.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 83854, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green and
Heather Satterfield for her Grandfather James Brice McDill, (USS Rigel Jan 1944 to January 1946) |
