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 Niagara (PG-52)
Entering Pearl Harbor on 31 March 1942.
Photo No. 19-N-29806 (also 80-G-15881).
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM
USS Niagara (PG-52)
Detail cropped from a distant view taken in February 1942 at Suva, Fiji Islands showing Niagara between USS Chicago (CA-29) and the New Zealand cruiser Leander. Niagara may have been helping escort convoys from Pearl Harbor to Fiji, as she was doing at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Photographed from USS Curtiss (AV-4).
Photo No. 80-G-7293
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command