Mission San Fernando Rey de España/Gallery
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(PD) Drawing: Rexford Newcomb
Architectural historian Rexford Newcomb sketched this pair of doors, which display the Spanish "River of Life" pattern, at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1916.[1](PD) Photo: United States Air Force / Dan Kovalchik
USNS Mission Fernando (T-AO-122) was the twelfth of twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers built during World War II for service in the United States Navy.[2] Seen here under tow entering the Quincy, Massachusetts shipyard for conversion to a "Missile Range Instrumentation Ship," she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to have borne the name.