Sea Lift/Meteor (T-LSV 9/AKR 9) 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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USNS Sea Lift (T-LSV 9) A preliminary design drawing showing the design after a reconfiguration of the superstructure and nearly in its final form before transfer to the design agent, George G. Sharp. Note the two long vehicle holds with the ramps, machinery space, and vehicle passage through the deckhouse between them. This drawing was reproduced in the publicity brochure for the ship released by the Bureau of Ships on 21 November 1962. Photo No. None Source: NHHC, NARA RG 19 Entry P 26 Box 34 |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-LSV 9) Photographed around the time of her delivery to MSTS. According to the MSTS caption, she was designed specifically for transporting vehicles of various types, and exit and entry to the ship was readily accomplished by a stern ramp, two ports on each side, and if necessary by conventional cargo handling gear. Note also that the amidships deckhouse was raised, allowing free movement beneath it to vehicles loaded onto on the weather deck. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-LSV 9) In the East China Sea in July 1968. She was reclassified T-AKR 9 effective 1 January 1969. Photo No. K-54226 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-AKR 9) At a vehicle handling pier, probably in the United States. Other images of this event show a highway bridge just aft of her stern and an inlet with two MSTS cargo LSTs just beyond her bow. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-AKR 9) Another view of the vehicle loading operation shown above. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-AKR 9) This view gives another view of the opening below the amidships superstructure to permit vehicles on the weather deck to drive through. The ship retains the two vertical exhaust pipes of Comet, but the dummy smokestack of the earlier ship has been replaced with a bridge level with 360-degree visibility. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-AKR 9) Port side view of the ship in port. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Sea Lift (T-AKR 9) Starboard quarter view of the ship underway with a deck cargo that includes large helicopters. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Meteor (T-AKR 9) An MSC insignia has been added on the starboard exhaust stack, probably around 1973 when the ship was still named Sea Lift. The name Meteor is on the bow, dating this photo to late 1975 or afterwards. The insignia remained in use to around 1985, and its absence on the photos above suggests that they all show the ship as Sea Lift. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Meteor (T-AKR 9) In the East China Sea on 24 August 1990. Photo No. DN-ST-90-11480 Source: RG 330 |
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GTS Admiral W M Callaghan In chartered service to MSTS with a load of Army vehicles. She has a narrow ramp in her stern which also shows her name and port of registry of Wilmington, Del. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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Fast Deployment Logistic Ship (FDLX) A preliminary design sketch that matches the artist's rendering of the ship in the brochure for the FY 1966 building program dated 15 June 1965. The artist's rendering shows a stern ramp extending the width of the ship and resembling that of a dock landing ship (LSD). Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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