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Photo # NH 99256:  USS Perkins underway in 1912

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26, later DD-26), 1910-1935.
Renamed DD-26 in 1933

USS Perkins, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in mid-November 1910, she had active and reserve service in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas until the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917. One of the second division of U.S. Navy destroyers sent to the European war zone, she performed escort and patrol missions out of Queenstown, Ireland, from June to November 1917. Returning to the U.S. for overhaul, she was based at Gravesend Bay, New York, from March 1918 until after the fighting ended in November. During 1919 Perkins took part in Atlantic Fleet exercises in the Caribbean. She was decommissioned and placed in reserve early in December 1919. The destroyer had no further active service. She was renamed DD-26 in 1933, freeing the name Perkins for a more modern ship, and was sold for scrapping in late June 1935.

USS Perkins was named in honor of Commodore George H. Perkins (1836-1899).

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26, later DD-26).

For 1914-era views concerning the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla's Second Division, of which Perkins was a member at the beginning of the year, see:

  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914; and
  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914 (Part II).


    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 #: 19-N-21-3-9

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Photographed on 1 October 1910, while nearing completion at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 67KB; 595 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 99256

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Underway in 1912.
    Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 44195

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    At anchor, prior to World War I.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 44KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 767

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Moored to a bouy while painted in pattern camouflage, 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41962

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Wearing pattern camouflage, 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: 19-N-1105

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Moored to a bouy in 1918.
    Note her "dazzle" camouflage, and the depth charge racks and "Y" gun depth charge thrower mounted on her after deck.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 100426

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Photographed by N. Moser during World War I, while painted in pattern camouflage.

    Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1985.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103767

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Underway off the U.S. East Coast waters, 1918.
    Note her pattern camouflage scheme.

    Collection of Arthur J. Rozette.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

     
    Photo #: NH 103768

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26)

    Underway off the U.S. East Coast, 1918.
    Note her pattern camouflage scheme.

    Collection of Arthur J. Rozette.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 430 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99514

    USS Perkins
    (Destroyer # 26), at left

    With battleships and other units of the Atlantic Fleet in harbor, circa 1919.

    Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 38KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     


    USS Perkins is seen, distantly, in the right center of the following photograph:

    Photo #: NH 79533

    U.S. Atlantic Fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 6 April 1919


    Third section from the right of a seven-part reproduction of a panoramic photograph taken by L.C. Grant, with the Falk Photo Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Other views in the series are Photo #s: NH 79529; NH 79530; NH 79531; NH 79532; NH 79534 and NH 79535.
    Among the ships present in this image is USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26), at right.

    Courtesy of the St. Louis Memorial Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     

    For 1914-era views concerning the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla's Second Division, of which Perkins was a member at the beginning of the year, see:

  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914; and
  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914 (Part II).


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


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    Page made 17 September 2004
    New images added 9 May 2006