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Photo # KN 13021:  USS Basilone underway off Oahu, Hawaii, February 1966.

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Basilone (DD-824), 1949-1982 --
Views taken after FRAM I Modernization, 1964 and later


This page features nearly all of the overall views we have showing USS Basilone (DD-824) during or after 1964.

For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Basilone (DDE-824, later DD-824), 1949-1982.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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

    Photo #: NH 103394

    USS Basilone
    (DD-824)

    View looking forward from astern, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion.
    Note the crane barge alongside.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 141KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: KN-13021 (Color)

    USS Basilone (DD-824)

    Underway off Oahu, Hawaii, in February 1966.
    Taken by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (AC) C.A. Komperda, of Composite Squadron One (VC-1).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-13021

     
    Photo #: NH 103381

    USS Basilone
    (DD-824)

    Operating off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 17 February 1966.
    Photographed by Komperda.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103396-KN (color)

    USS Basilone (DD-824)

    Underway at sea, circa the later 1960s or early 1970s.
    This photograph may have been taken by USS America (CVA-66).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 86385

    USS Basilone
    (DD-824)

    Underway, 3 January 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 86386

    USS Basilone
    (DD-824)

    Underway at sea on 3 January 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103382

    USS Basilone
    (DD-824)

    Underway in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 3 January 1972.
    Photographed by PHAN Agar.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1117062

    USS Sacramento
    (AOE-1), center

    Replenishing the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), at right, and the destroyer USS Basilone (DD-824) in the South China Sea, 13 April 1966.

    Taken by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class J.L. Rivera, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1117062.

     
    Photo #: NH 103398

    USS Basilone
    (DD-824)

    Receives assistance from the harbor tug Cochali (YTM-383) as she arrives at Newport, Rhode Island, on 6 February 1973. While operating in the Atlantic on the previous day, Basilone had sustained a boiler explosion that took the lives of three of her crew and injured eight more.
    Taken by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Troy A. Lewiston.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Basilone (DD-824), taken after her 1963-1964 FRAM I modernization. The following list features some of these images:

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



  • Photo #: Navy K-109946 (color)
    USS Basilone (DD-824) coming alongside USS Forrestal (CV-59) during operations in the Mediterranean Sea, 27 June 1975. Photographed by PH1 S.C. Rock.
    Port bow (relatively tight on the bow) surface view, taken from about the height of Basilone's foremast radar platform. Some of Forrestal's starboard side structure is visible on the right side of the photograph, as are some of her crew members.

  • Photo #: Navy K-109947 (color)
    As K-109946 but port quarter surface view, relatively close up, showing Basilone from her forward 5-inch gun mount to just shy of her stern. Her crewmen are at work on her helicopter deck, preparing to bring a fueling line aboard. Nothing of Forrestal is visible in this photograph.

  • Photo #: Navy K-109948 (color)
    As K-109946 but port quarter surface view, taken from rather lower down (about the height of the top of Basilone's helicopter hangar). A refueling hose is rigged between her helicopter deck and Forrestal. Some of the latter's starboard side structure is visible on the left side of the photograph.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For other pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Basilone (DDE-824, later DD-824), 1949-1982.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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