HMS Assistance (AR-17) 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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HMS Assistance (AR-17) In Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, Md., on 3 February 1945. This ship completed conversion and was delivered to the British on 20 January 1945. Photo No. 19-N-79228 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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HMS Diligence (AR-18) In Chesapeake Bay off Port Covington, Baltimore, Md., on 12 March 1945. This ship completed conversion and was delivered to the British on 3 March 1945. Photo No. 19-N-83959 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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HMS Diligence (AR-18) In Chesapeake Bay off Port Covington, Baltimore, Md., on 12 March 1945. Photo No. 19-N-83960 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Laertes (AR-20) In Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, Md., on 24 March 1945, the day she completed conversion. Photo No. 19-N-80869 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Dionysus (AR-21) Photographed while in commission between 1952 and 1955. Photo No. USN 1045360 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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HMS Faithful, later USS Dionysus (AR-21) Being moved from her builder's yard to her conversion yard at Baltimore, Md., on 25 October 1944. Officially 79.9 percent complete, she lacks nearly all her smaller fittings, including her rig, because most of these would have been removed during conversion. All of the ships of the AR-17, ARG-2, and ARV-1 classes were delivered from their builders in this condition. Photo No. 80-G-121493 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G |
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