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28k | Illustration of Proteus by Andrea Alciato from The Book of Emblems (1531) |
Tommy Trampp | |
09020918 |
238k | Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) launching platform party, 14 September 1912, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.
U.S. Navy photo from the George C. Bain Collection of the Library of Congress. Courtesy FLICKR |
Robert Hurst | |
09020919 |
101k | Launching of Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.
George C. Bain Collection of the Library of Congress. |
Robert Hurst | |
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144k | Proteus (Fuel Ship #9), 1 July 1913, nine days before commissioning. This ship had Mead-Morrison coal handling gear as
did USS Cyclops (Fuel Ship #4), but the system of uprights and booms, designed by a different shipbuilder, differed from that
in the earlier ship. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 44057, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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415k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) date and location unknown. US Navy photo from the collections of the US Navy Memorial. |
Tommy Trampp | |
09020910 |
154k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) loading personnel drafts in 1915 for a Far East cruise.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Catalog # NH 108194 |
Tommy Trampp | |
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45k | Starboard broadside view of USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) anchored at Olongapo, Philippines, 22 February 1915. Note flags in
honor of Washington's birthday. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH-88565, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
09020913 |
225k | A group of USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) crew members, circa 1913-1917, during her Far East cruise. | James Gallegos | |
09020914 |
403k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) moored pierside probably, circa 1913-1917, during her Far East cruise. | James Gallegos | |
09020915 |
112k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) at anchor loading coal probably in a Chinese port, circa 1913-1917, during her Far East cruise. | James Gallegos | |
09020916 |
463k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) "Liberty Call" probably in a Chinese port, circa 1913-1917, during her Far East cruise. | James Gallegos | |
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22k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9), circa 1916 or 1917, location unknown. | Chris MacDonald in honor of his grand-uncle, Dan Archibald MacDonald, who lost his life in Proteus | |
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122k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) loading coal, probably soon after her armament was fitted circa mid-1917.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 44057, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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226k | A 1918 view of Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA. At left is USS Kanawha (Fuel Ship #13),
just beyond her is
USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9). In the foreground is one of the Amphitrite Class monitors in the process of being scrapped, it could be either Terror or Miantonomah. Just beyond her bow is a torpedo boat. Photo by International Film Services. Uploaded to Wikimedia, 31 May 2016, by Harley Flowers |
Robert Hurst | |
09020912 |
194k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) going alongside a pier at Queenstown, Ireland, during World War I. Note her dazzle camouflage scheme.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Catalog No. NH 44059 |
Tommy Trampp | |
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103k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9), at New York Navy Yard, 20 June 1918 US Navy photo # NR&L(M) 4383 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
09020911 |
178k | USS Proteus (Fuel Ship #9) coaling USS Delaware
(Battleship No. 28) at Guantanamo Bay Cuba in January 1920.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Catalog No. NH 44364 |
Tommy Trampp | |
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66k | Three USS Proteus (AC-9) crew members siting on a life raft, circa 1920s. | Tommy Trampp | |
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276k | USS Proteus (AC-9) "Champion Pie Eaters", 19 June 1920. | David Wright | |
09020917 |
77k | USS Proteus baseball team, circa 1910-1930. | Tommy Trampp | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | MASTER Easton, Richard James, (Naval Auxiliary Service) | 9 July 1913 - 31 March 1914 |
| In Reserve at Norfolk, VA. | 31 March 1914 - 1915 | |
| 02 | MASTER/LCDR. Hansen, Neils Sigurd, NAS/USNRF | 22 December 1916 - 10 June 1920 |
| 03 | LCDR. Horton, Fred Edward, USNRF | 10 June 1920 - 17 July 1921 |
| 04 | LCDR. Lane, Eugene USN | 17 July 1921 - 10 June 1922 |
| 05 | CDR. Slayton, Charles Churchill | 10 June 1922 - 24 March 1924 |
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