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Nanshan (AG-3): Photographs


These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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Filipino insurgent surrender, 1902

Insurgents of Filipino General Guevara's army on board the U.S. Navy collier Nanshan on 26 April 1902, while being transported from the mouth of the Gandara River to Catbalogan, Samar, where they formally surrendered.
This surrender ended the guerilla warfare in the Philippines that began in 1899.

Photo No. NH 105297
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.


 
USS Nanshan (1898-1922)

Anchored at Guaymas in northwestern Mexico on 26 December 1915.

Photo No. NH 92196
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.


 
USS Nanshan (AG-3)

Photographed circa 1920.
The World War I modifications included four 6-pounder guns, two at each end, and the crowsnests and liferafts on both masts. Nanshan was refitted as the target repair ship in the Pacific in early 1920.

Photo No. 19-N-11437
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-N box 9.