USS Aylwin, lowest-numbered of a class of four 1036-ton destroyers built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in mid-January 1914. She was in reserve for much of her first year of service, returning to full recommissioned status in late May 1915 to commence operations along the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean area. During the last half of 1917, when the United States was actively participating in World War I, Aylwin was employed on experimental duties in New England waters. She crossed the Atlantic to Queenstown, Ireland, early in 1918 and spent the remainder of the war conducting anti-submarine patrols and escorting shipping.
For some time beginning in late December 1918, Aylwin was part of a U.S. Navy force that entered the Baltic Sea to inspect German ports there. She left European waters in June 1919 and, soon after arrival home, was placed in reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Formally decommissioned in February 1921, Aylwin was laid up for the remainder of her Navy career. She became simply DD-47 at the beginning of July 1933, permitting the assignment of the name Aylwin to the new destroyer DD-355. Stricken from the Navy list in March 1935, she was subsequently scrapped.
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Photo #: NH 103480 USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47) Steaming at 29.78 knots on trial run # 24, south, circa 1913. Note that the ship's guns have not yet been installed. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57469 USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47) Running builder's trials in 1913, prior to the installation of her armament. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-13867 USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47) Running builder's trials in 1913, prior to installation of her armament. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 77908 USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47) Underway, circa 1916-1917. The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock. Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, USN, 1962. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57470 USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47) Standing by as a German pilot boat picks up a pilot who has just left USS Chester (Scout Cruiser # 1) off Swinemünde, Germany, 1919. The two U.S. Navy ships were then conducting an inspection of Germany's ports on the Baltic Sea. Courtesy of W.E.J. Thompson. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 505 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42081 USS Wickes (Destroyer # 75), at left and USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47), right foreground At anchor in German waters during the first part of 1919. Courtesy of W.E.J. Thompson. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 93214 USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47) Panoramic photograph in port, circa 1919. Donation of Robert L. Strickland, 1981. The original print belonged to the donor's father, Louis G. Strickland, who served in Aylwin During World War I. It was made circa 1947-1951 by copying an original print that had become brittle. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 101KB; 1200 x 600 pixels |
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Page made 29 January 2006