Gold Star (AG-12): 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 Gold Star (AG-12) At anchor at Sitka, Alaska, in September 1922. Gold Star supported remote Alaskan radio stations between 1922 and 1924. Photo No. NH 631 (detail) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Gold Star (AG-12) At Apra Harbor, Guam, circa the 1920s. Gold Star was station ship at Guam from 1924 to 1941. In this image she seems little changed since she was photographed at Sitka in 1922. Photo No. 80-G-651919 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G. |
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USS Gold Star (AG-12) According to the original caption of this photo, dated 2 September 1937, Gold Star was scheduled to sail from Shanghai for Kobe, Japan, on 3 September 1937 with 25 Americans, mostly the wives of officers and ex-servicemen. This was probably the limit of her passenger accommodations, possibly located in the area under the bridge, and many Americans were fleeing the port in ships of other nations. This photo may in fact show the ship a year or two before this voyage. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe. |
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USS Gold Star (AG-12) At Shanghai in the late 1930s. Compared with the photo dated 1937 above, her passenger accommodations appear to have been remodeled and expanded by the addition of a deckhouse aft of the smokestack. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe. |
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