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Prowess (IX 305) 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 Prowess (AM 280)

Laid up in the reserve fleet following World War II.

Photo No. NH 89421
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, courtesy of Ted Stone, 1979


USS Prowess (AM 280) in reserve
USS Prowess (MSF 280)

On the Genesee River at Rochester, N.Y., in the summer of 1964 as a Naval Reserve Training (NRT) ship.

Photo No. None
Source: NavSource, from Thomas Della Porta


USS Prowess (MSF 280) in 1964
USS Prowess (IX 305)

Drydocked in the Great Lakes area circa the late 1960s.

Photo No. None
Source: NavSource, from the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes


USS Prowess (IX 305)
USS Prowess (IX 305)

Training reserves on Lake Erie circa 1969.

Photo No. None
Source: NavSource, from David Learn


USS Prowess (IX 305)