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 USS Orizaba (SP#1536)
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NamesakeOrizaba - (Name retained) A city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
The valley of Orizaba, with the city in the middle distance and the Pico de Orizaba on the horizon.
Photo by David H. Tuggy (PixEnglish) CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons |
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SS Orizaba under construction at William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., yard, Philadelphia, PA., circa 1917.
Photo from "The Road to France I: The Transportation of Troops and Military Supplies, 1917–1918" by Benedict Crowell and Robert Forrest Wilson. |
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Orizaba (SP#1536) probably photographed just before completion, at William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., yard,
Philadelphia, PA., circa April 1918. Note her pattern camouflage and wartime rig of a single mast amidships.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 101700. |
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USS Orizaba (SP#1536) leaving her New York City slip and going down the North River, bound for France in 1918. Note her pattern
camouflage scheme.
US Naval History and Heritage Command # NH 44914. |
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USS Orizaba (SP#1536) leaving her New York City slip and going down the North River, bound for France in 1918. Note her
pattern camouflage scheme, tugs assisting her, and ferryboat in the left background.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 44915. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Orizaba (SP#1536) underway in harbor, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "A History Of The Transport Service: Adventures And Experiences Of United States Transports And Cruisers in the World War", by Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN, Published by George H. Doran Company, New York |
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Halftone reproduction of a photograph of USS Orizaba (SP#1536) taken in 1918, showing the ship in port. The original image was published in 1918-1919 as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning USS Orizaba.
US Navy photo # NH 76047 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Donation of W.R. Koger, 1972. |
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USS Orizaba (SP#1536) in a U.S. East Coast port, 1919. The original photograph is printed on postal card ("AZO") stock.
US Navy photo # NH 102946 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005. |
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USS Orizaba (SP#1536) probably printed on postal card ("AZO") stock. Although identified as SS Orizaba this is
clearly a photo of the US Navy transport USS Orizaba as evidenced by the life rafts attached to her passenger decks.
Post card issued by the Jewish Welfare Board. |
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USAT Orizaba
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Halftone reproduction of a photo of USAT Orizaba taken in 1941, during the ship's brief service as a U.S. Army Transport.
Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 103119 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval Historical Center |
USS Orizaba (AP-24)
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., while undergoing conversion for Naval service, 29 September 1941.
The ship in the foreground is USS Relief (AH-1). Note the details of
Relief's bridge, and the illuminated hospital ship recognition cross just forward of and above the spread awning (in the right center).
An oiler and the sludge removal barge YSR-1 are in the upper right, with two old "flush
deck" destroyers beyond.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-26136, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
US Naval Historical Center |
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25873 |
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 29 October 1941. She appears to be painted in Camouflage
Measure 12 (Graded System).
US National Archives photo #'s 19-N-258732, and 19-N-25872, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US
National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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US National Archives photo # 19-N-25872 |
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Looking aft from the flight deck of USS Ranger (CV-4) is USS Orizaba (AP-24), center, with USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) steaming in column astern, while en route to Cape Town, South Africa, 21 November 1941. A Vought SB2U scout bomber, of Scouting Squadron 41 (VS-41) is parked at right. Visible on the flight deck is the letter "G" of Ranger's pre-war identification marking "RNGR".
US National Archives photo # 80-G-466194, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) near Norfolk Navy Yard, 17 November 1942. The ship's four 3"/23 guns have been replaced by 3"/50's and
her .50 caliber machine guns have been replaced by 20mm guns.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo # 19-N-37279, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the
collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) foreground, steams in convoy with other troopships and an oiler, in the Atlantic Ocean, 27 July 1943.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-54532, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) underway at sea, circa 1944.
The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 11F.
US Navy photo # NH 66876 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) underway, date and location unknown. |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII |
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USS Orizaba (AP-24) on sea trials on 6 July 1945 after being refitted at Tampa, Florida, for loan to Brazil under Lend Lease. The hull markings on the bow and stern, "NTR-1," probably reflect her Brazilian classification as a Navio de Transporte.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo # 19-N-91267, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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 Duque de Caxias (U-11)
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) ship's badge. |
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Ex-USS Orizaba (AP-24) in Brazilian service as Duque de Caxias (U-11) in port, circa the 1950s.
US Navy photo # NH 59786 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) in port, circa the 1950s.
US Navy photo # NH 59786 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) under way, circa 1950, location unknown.
Official Brazilian Navy photo for from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1954-55" |
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) on the final leg of a midshipmen cruise docking at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
Aboard are Brazil's future officers as well as midshipmen from six other South American nations and Mexico, 14 December 1954.
Photo from George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center. Identifier P557144B. |
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) in British waters, circa 1956 (Wright & Logan, Southsea, England).
Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1956-57" |
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) anchored in the harbor at Genoa, Italy, 8 July 1956. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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Duque de Caxias (U-11) underway in harbor with tugs, date and location unknown.
Brazil Navy photos |
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