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Photo #: NH 105512 (complete caption)

"Flotilla A, Destroyer Force"

Tied up with sterns to the wharf in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, while awaiting decommissioning, circa May 1919.
Other ships in the background include a Monitor, three old battleships and several torpedo boats.
Panoramic photograph by Frawley and Collins, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
Ships in the foreground are (from left to right):
USS Dale (Destroyer # 4);
USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8);
USS Perry (Destroyer # 11);
USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15);
USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14);
A barge;
USS Worden (Destroyer # 16);
USS Barry (Destroyer # 2);
USS Hull (Destroyer # 7);
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6);
USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1);
USS Stewart (Destroyer # 13);
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10);
USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5);
USS Preble (Destroyer # 12);
USS Preston (Destroyer # 19);
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20);
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18);
USS Reid (Destroyer # 21); and
USS Isabel (SP-521).
Ships in the background are (from left to right):
USS Amphitrite (Monitor # 2);
USS Coast Battleship # 4(ex-Iowa) -- outboard;
USS Coast Battleship # 2(ex-Massachusetts) -- inboard; and
USS Coast Battleship # 1(ex-Indiana).
Several torpedo boats are moored alongside the old battleships.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 17 February 2008