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28k | Illustration of Proteus by Andrea Alciato from The Book of Emblems (1531) |
Tommy Trampp | ||
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 | ||
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 | |
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 | |
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 | ||
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 | ||
091900163 |
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 | |
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 | |
66k | Three USS Proteus (AC-9) crew members siting on a life raft, circa 1920s. | Tommy Trampp | ||
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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