USS Ocelot (IX-110)
A post-conversion view taken on 23 January 1944 in Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore.
Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
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USS Ocelot (IX-110)
Photographed on 6 May 1944 by an aircraft from the Norfolk Naval Air Station.
Photo No. 80-G-229574
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G
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USS City of Dalhart (IX-156)
Near the U.S. Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., on 3 June 1944.
Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
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USS City of Dalhart (IX-156)
Near the U.S. Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., on 3 June 1944.
Photo No. 19-N-77664
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
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USS Orvetta (IX-157)
Near the U.S. Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., on 3 June 1944.
Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
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USS Orvetta (IX-157)
Near the U.S. Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco, Calif., on 3 June 1944.
Photo No. 19-N-76758
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
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USS Unicoi (IX-216)
Photographed circa 1945.
The thin stack with the large square base was fitted to the ship when she was converted to diesel propulsion in the mid-1920s.
Photo No. NH 84655
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
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USS Ocelot (IX-110)
Photographed in November 1945 after being driven ashore and wrecked at Buckner Bay, Okinawa by Typhoon Louise on 9 October 1945.
Photo No. NH 105658
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
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Wrecks at Buckner Bay, Okinawa
On 9 October 1945 Typhoon Louise drove the bow of USS Nestor (ARB-6) completely through the stern of USS Ocelot (IX-110). The crew of the semi-sunken Nestor took refuge on the barracks barge APL-14, which had been driven into Nestor's stern. A harbor tug also fetched up in the pile of wreckage.
Photo No. NH 105655
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
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USS Orvetta (IX-157)
Moored to the buoys in the Whangpoo River below the customs jetty at Shanghai, China, in late 1945 or early 1946. Orvetta was used as a receiving ship for incoming and outgoing personnel. Note the additional accommodations built on deck forward.
Photo NH 68798
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
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