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09361838 1,021k Namesake Orion - In Greek mythology, Orion was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. (Wikipedia) Print of the copperplate engraving for Johann Bayer's Uranometria (1661) showing the constellation Orion, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Library. Tommy Trampp 60k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) photographed prior to World War I, probably during her first years of service. Note: she has not yet received the enclosed pilot house, atop her forward superstructure, that she carried from at least 1917 onward.
US Navy photo # NH 99778 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Tony Cowart 428k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) coaling USS Utah (Battleship No.31) by conveyers, at Navy Yard New York, 16 July 1914. The conveyor foot in the hold of Orion
US National Archives ARC Identifier: 6126669 Mike Mohl 70k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) in the Dewey Dry Dock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines, in February 1916. Photograph from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979 to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 90435 Tony Cowart 89k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) 4"/40 gun crew, circa 1917-1918.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 99799 from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979. Robert Hurst 71k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) underway at sea off New York Harbor in October 1917, after passing the Ambrose light ship. Photograph from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979 to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 90432 Tony Cowart
09021121 101k Portuguese newspaper article reporting the encounter of USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) with a German submarine off Ponta Delgada in the Azores, 4 July 1917. Also includes a photo of LCDR Boesch, Orion's commanding officer. Jay Milewski
09021122 229k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) underway in Guantanamo Bay Cuba, date unknown. David WRight 90k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) discharging cargo at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 27 October 1918. Photograph from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979 to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 90434 Tony Cowart 135k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) offloading coal at a West Indies port (possibly St. Thomas, Virgin Islands), circa 1918-1919. Note local women with coal baskets atop their heads.
US Navy photo # NH 90440 from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979. US Naval Historical Center 68k West Indian Women carry coal baskets on their heads, while unloading USS Orion (Collier # 11), circa 1918-1919. Location may be St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 90441 from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979. Robert Hurst 209k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) at anchor, circa 1919, location unknown.
Same as US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 68320, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson Jim Kurrasch
Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center 127k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) coaling at the Norfolk & Western coal pier, Norfolk, VA., circa 1919. Photographed by A.E. Wells, Washington, D.C. From the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979 to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 90445 Tony Cowart 87k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, VA., circa 1919. Panoramic photograph taken by the G.L. Hall Optical Co. of Norfolk, VA. Note: the Sailor making a semaphore signal from the ship's port bridge wing (at left), and several gun barrels stacked in the far right foreground. Donation of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard Museum, Portsmouth, VA. to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 99779 Tony Cowart 80k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) drying signal flags while anchored off Long Beach, California, August 1919. Photograph from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979 to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 90437 Tony Cowart 87k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) Crewmen at mess on deck, outside the ship's after superstructure, circa 1917-1920.
US Navy photo # NH 90436 from the US Naval Historical Center, Collection CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979. US Naval Historical Center 117k USS Orion (Fuel Ship No. 11) ship's officers and mascot, 14 May 1920, photo by A.E. Wells, Washington, D.C. Orion is partially visible behind them. Her Commanding Officer, CDR John H. Boesch, USNRF, is seated behind the dog.
US Navy photo # NH 90438 from the US Naval Historical Center, Collection Commander John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979. US Naval Historical Center 70k USS Orion (AC-11) coaling USS Pittsburgh (CA-4), flagship of Commander U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters, at Cardiff, Wales, during the early 1920s.
US Navy photo # NH 93724 courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982, from the US Naval Historical Center. Tony Cowart 96k USS Orion (AC-11) eastbound in the Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, November 1921. Photograph from the collection of CDR. John H. Boesch, USNRF. Donated by Jack Howland, 1979 to the US Naval Historical Center.
US Navy photo # NH 90442. Tony Cowart 68k USS Orion (AC-11) or USS Jason (AC-12) at a Caribbean area base, probably the Coco Solo Submarine Base, Panama Canal Zone, circa the mid-1920s. USS O-2 (SS-63) is at right.
US Navy photo # NH 100770 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy Paul H. Silverstone, 1986. US Naval Historical Center 86k USS Orion (AC-11) anchored off the Isle of Pines, Cuba, during the 1920s. Photographed from USS Hannibal (AG-1).
US Navy photo # NH 99716 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, collection of LeRoy R. Horstman. Tony Cowart 134k USS Orion (AC-11) at Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA., 8 April 1923, with her officers and crew posed beside her. Panoramic photograph taken by H.J. Darley, of Somerville, MA. entitled: "Officers & Crew of the U.S.S. Orion after the bestowal by the Portuguese Government of the Decoration 'Torre e Espada' -- Boston Navy Yard April 8th 1923".
US Navy photo # NH 99780 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. US Naval Historical Center 272k USS Orion (AC-11) S and A form 85a. Rating or Disrating form used to adjust pay for enlisted members. Tommy Trampp
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