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Armadillo (IX-111) Class: 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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USS Porcupine (IX-126)

In the Southwest Pacific on 17 October 1944.

Photo No. 80-G-295412
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USS Caribou (IX-114)

Probably shown during a stop at San Francisco in early 1946 on her way from Guam to Norfolk, Va., to decommission.

Photo No. None
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Ex-USS Panda (IX125)

Photographed in March 1948 just after being withdrawn from the Maritime Commission Reserve Fleet at Lee Hall (James River) Virginia and just before being delivered to her commercial buyer at Hoboken, N.J.

Photo No. NH 89406
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command