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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Saint Augustine (PG-54), 1941-1944

USS Saint Augustine, a 1720-ton gunboat, was built at Newport News, Virginia, in 1929 as the yacht Viking. Later renamed Noparo, she was purchased by the Navy in December 1940 and converted to a warship at Boston, Massachusetts. Following commissioning in January 1941, St. Augustine performed patrol duties out of Boston. In 1942 she was assigned to convoy escort service between New York City and the Caribbean area. While so employed on 6 January 1944 she collided with the merchant ship Camas Meadows and quickly sank. Nearly four-fifths of her crew lost their lives in this tragic accident.

This page features all the views we have of USS St. Augustine (PG-54).

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: 19-N-24213 USS Saint Augustine (PG-54) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 27 May 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
Photo #: 19-N-24214 USS Saint Augustine (PG-54) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 27 May 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 580 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
Photo #: 19-N-24215 USS Saint Augustine (PG-54) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 27 May 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 585 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
Photo #: NH 98190 USS Saint Augustine (PG-54) Underway off the U.S. East Coast (position 37 04'N, 74 45'W), 22 May 1943. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-14, flying out of Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 132KB; 740 x 610 pixels

In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view
of USS Saint Augustine (PG-54). The following list features this image:

The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".

Photo #: 80-G-450410 Port stern aerial view of USS St. Augustine (PG-54) underway. Photo was probably taken on 22 May 1943, but was released on 22 February 1944, soon after the ship was lost. Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".

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