Mahanna (AG-8): 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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S.S. Catawba (ID-3470) A typical example of the Hough-type (Design 1003) wooden-hulled cargo ships built by the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War I and photographed in late 1918. Mahanna was a sister. To speed construction the designer of this class, Edward S. Hough, used straight timbers in a flat-sided hull with a V-shaped rather than rounded bottom. Catawba was completed by the Fulton Shipbuilding Co. at Wilmington, Calif., on 3 October 1918 and was taken out of documentation on 31 January 1924 and scrapped. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (ID card). |
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USS Mahanna (AG-8) In drydock, probably at the Norfolk Navy Yard in late 1920 or early 1921. She has been fitted out as a surveying ship with surveying launches stowed on the bridge island forward of the pilot house. Note the flat sides and hard bilges, features of the wooden EFC Design 1003 cargo ships. Photo No. NH 82215 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Mahanna (AG-8) This oversized panoramic photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard by Crosby & Folak bears the manuscript date 4 January 1920 but was probably taken on 4 January 1921. The ship is fully fitted out as a surveying ship and looks ready to depart on a surveying mission to the West Indies. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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