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USS Proteus (AS-19)
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In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early prophetic sea-god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of
several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea."
Illustration of Proteus by Andrea Alciato from The Book of Emblems (1531) |
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Midships looking aft view of USS Proteus (AS-19) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 15 March 1944. Proteus was under going repairs at the yard from March 2 to March 19, 1944.
File name: AS 19 1752-44, Navy Photo, 3/15/44 |
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Plan view of the bow of USS Proteus (AS-19) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 15 March 1944.
File name: AS 19 1755-44, Navy Photo, 3/15/44 |
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Bow view of USS Proteus (AS-19) underway off Mare Island Navy Yard, 15 March 1944.
File name: AS 19 1811-44, Navy Photo, 3/15/44 |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored at Midway, 15 May 1944. Submarines receiving maintenance and service are
USS Bang (SS-385),
USS Pintado (SS-387) and
USS Pilotfish (SS-375).
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 93498, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored to a buoy, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
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Sketch of USS Proteus (AS-19) underway. |
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USS Proteus (AS 19) with the Japanese submarine cruiser I.14 and the aircraft carrying submarine I.401 (center left), 29 August 1945. U.S. Navy photo from "The Maru Special No.13 Japanese submarines I.13 class and I.400 class" |
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Two Japanese Submarines Surrender. (See above photo) Flying flags of surrender, two Japanese submarines which bowed to American forces 200 miles off the
Japanese mainland rest at anchor alongside USS Proteus (AS-19) This photo, showing the sterns of the underseas raiders, was taken by a Coast Guard combat photographer from an LST alongside Proteus,
30 August 30, 1945.
U.S. Coast Guard photo # 4782, US National Archives Identifier 205585303, Local Identifier 26-G-4782 |
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USS Proteus (AS 19) with two fleet submarines alongside, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "United States Submarine Operations in World War Two" by Theodore Roscoe. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) with submarines of Submarine Squadron 20 alongside in Tokyo Bay, on VJ-Day, 2 September 1945.
Names of the submarines present, their commanding officers and the commanding officers of SubRon20 and USS Proteus are printed at the bottom of the image.
US Navy photo # NH 90519 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command , Courtesy Capt. Joseph F. Enright USN Ret. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) in original configuration
US Navy photo |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) in original configuration
US Navy photo |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) underway in the harbor at Charleston, SC., date unknown.
US Navy photo |
Courtesy Randy Guttery
Tendertales Web Site |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) lies in drydock at Charleston cut in half to add a new mid-section that will equip her with special shops and gear to serve as a Fleet tender to the Navy's first squadron of nuclear submarines.
US Navy photo |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. and Robert Hall |
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Port broadside view of USS Proteus (AS-19) near the Charleston (S.C.) Naval Shipyard, 8 August 1960, after completing conversion to a tender to support the new Polaris SSBNs. The hull was cut in half just forward of the engine rooms and a section with a ballistic missile magazine and handling crane was inserted amidships.
Charleston Naval Shipyard photo # NSY-EST-L-1718-8/8/60 now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) after completion of her conversion to a FBM submarine tender enroute to her new assignment at
Holy Loch, Scotland, 4 February 1960 as the Navy's first overseas based Polaris Missile Submarine Tender.
09361928 - "Warship Boneyards" by Kit and Carolyn Bonner, Treasure Island Museum
09361964 - U.S. Navy Photo via AP wire photo |
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09361964 Darryl Baker |
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Transfer of a Polaris Missile between USS Proteus (AS-19) and USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) at Holy Loch, Dunoon, Scotland, 1961
US Navy photo
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored in Holy Loch, Dunoon, Scotland, date unknown. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) tends to two of her brood at Holy Loch Scotland. USS Betelgeuse (AK-260) (moored to her port side) shuttled between Charleston and Holy Loch bringing everything needed to operate the tender, maintain the subs and provide for the well being of crew and dependents.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine October 1962 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) tending an FBM submarine at Holy Loch, Scotland, date unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine January 1963 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) underway in 1963, location unknown.
US Navy photo NPC 1090461. |
Scott Koen |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) in FBM Tender configuration
US Navy photo |
Larry Bohn |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) with USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), probably at Holy Loch, Dunoon, Scotland, 1961.
US Navy photo
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Overhead view of USS Proteus (AS-19) with a submarine alongside, date and location unknown.
Department of Defense photo # DN-SC-90-0770
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Guard Mail postage stamp featuring USS Proteus (AS-36) Guard Mail was local mail on Guam instituted in the 1930s.
Guard Mail was necessary since the US Post Office at Guam did not deliver to individual addresses. |
Tommy Trampp |
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Overhead view of USS Proteus (AS-19) in her mooring at NavSta Guam,
circa, 1981/82. Proteus has three unidentified submarines alongside. On the quay wall is a Skate Class attack submarine and the fleet ballistic missile
submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598). |
Photo i.d. courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). & David Laney MMCM/SS, USN (Retired)
US Navy photo # DNSC8808186 courtesy of Stephen Gower. |
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Left to right; USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642), USS Hunley (AS-31), USNS Furman (T-AK-280) USS Proteus (AS-19) and
USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634) The two submarines are receiving regular routine maintenance and upkeep. Hunley is in the process of relieving Proteus, and Furman is providing both tenders with spare parts and groceries on her regular monthly trip Guam. Hunley will be in Guam for about five months while Proteus is in overhaul at the Ship Repair Facility, Guam. The background shows the peninsula of Polaris Point.
Photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1968. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) tending submarines at Polaris Point, Apra Harbor, Guam, circa early 1970s.
US Navy photo. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) tending submarines at Polaris Point, Apra Harbor, Guam, circa early 1970s.
US Navy photo. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) wardroom in November 1972 after her overhaul at Mare Island.Mare Island Naval Shipyard photos 113281-11-72 and 113282-11-72 |
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View of the USS Proteus (AS-19) galley area, November 1972, after overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
File Name: AS 19 113262-11-72, Navy Photo, November 1972. |
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A warrant officer inspects the food service line aboard USS Proteus (AS-19), November 1972, after overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
File Name: AS 19 113263-11-72, Navy Photo, November 1972. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19), crews mess, November 1972, after overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
File Name: AS 19 113265-11-72, Navy Photo, November 1972. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19), CPO mess, November 1972, after overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
File Name: AS 19 113267-11-72, Navy Photo, November 1972. |
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Submarine tenders moored pierside at Ballast Point, Naval Station Point Loma, San Diego, CA., circa 1980s. From right to left
USS Sperry (AS-12),
USS Proteus (AS-19) and
USS Dixon (AS-37).
Defense Imagery Photo # VIRIN: DN-SC-85-09594 |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored at Naval Station Guam, date unknown. |
Photo by Norman K. Palosky PH1, USN Ret. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) underway, date and location unknown. |
Nicholas Tiberio |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) underway, date and location unknown. |
Nicholas Tiberio |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored with submarines alongside, probably at Naval Station Guam, date unknown. |
Nicholas Tiberio |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) being assisted by Saco (YTB-796) into her berth at Naval Base Guam, 24 May 1980.
DVIC photo # DN-SC-88-08187 from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center. |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored pierside at Victoria Quay, Naval Base Fremantle, Australia in 1984. |
Jack Treutle |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) in dry dock at Guam, 1985. |
Photo by Larry Lee |
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USNS Spica (T-AFS-9) drydocked at Ship Repair Facility Subic Bay, Philippines in Artisan (AFDB-1), 1 January 1987. Moored to the right of Artisan is USS Proteus (AS-19) with two Sturgeon class nuclear-powered attack submarines nested alongside. The Naval Supply Depot is in the background.
Defense Imagery photo # DNST9301078, a US Navy photo by PH2 Ellenwood |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored pierside, date and location unknown. |
Yucel M. Umar GMC Turkish Navy (Ret) |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) displaying a WWII camouflage scheme during two month deployment to Australia to 'commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea fought in May 1942.
US Navy photo |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored pierside at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in August 1992 after returning from a two month deployment
to Australia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in May 1942. Note in the background the cruiser superstructure which is probably USS Long Beach (CGN-9) |
Photo by John MacKay |
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USS Proteus (AS-19) moored pierside, date and location unknown. |
Joe Radigan |
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Ex-USS Proteus (AS-19) reclassified as berthing and messing barge IX-518 moored at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, circa 1994.
US Navy photo |
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IX-518 moored at Suisun Bay National Defense Fleet, Benecia, CA., in October 1999. Photo from "Warship Boneyards" by Kit and Carolyn Bonner, authors collection. |
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Ex-IX-518 moored at a scrapping pier at ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX., 1 August 2007 |
©Michael Martin, Brownsville, TX. |
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Ex-IX-518 being dismantled at ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX., circa September 2007 |
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