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Photo # NH 41782:  USS Tillman at the Charleston Navy Yard, S.C., 14 June 1921

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USS Tillman (Destroyer # 135, later DD-135), 1921-1940

USS Tillman, a 1090-ton Wickes class destroyer built at the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, was commissioned in April 1921. She operated with the Atlantic Fleet for the next year, but in July 1922 was placed out of commission and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

Tillman returned to commissioned service at the beginning of May 1930, serving with the Scouting Force and Training Squadron in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas for most of the decade. Again decommissioned in June 1939, she was brought back into commission in August 1940 as part of the Nation's response to the growing crisis that accompanied the first year of World War II. USS Tillman was transferred to Great Britain in late November 1940, under the "destroyers for bases" agreement.

Renamed HMS Wells, the destroyer steamed to the United Kingdom in early 1941. She spent most of World War II on North Atlantic escort service. In 1945 Wells became an aircraft training target. Decommissioned in July 1945, she was subsequently scrapped in Scotland.

USS Tillman was named in honor of U.S. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman (1847-1918), who was Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee during and before World War I.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Tillman (Destroyer # 135, later DD-135).


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Photo #: NH 103192

USS Tillman
(DD-135)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa mid-1921.
Photographed by H.J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
The four-funneled ship in the right distance is the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.
The original print bears a hand-written note referring to a Commandant, Boston Navy Yard letter of 28 July 1921.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 121KB; 1200 x 635 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41782

USS Tillman
(DD-135)

At the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, 14 June 1921.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67801

USS Tillman
(DD-135)

In New York Harbor, circa the 1930s.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103772

USS Tillman
(DD-135)

Ship's Officers and Crew posed beside her at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 22 July 1921.
Panoramic photograph by H.J. Darley, Charlestown, Mass.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 1200 x 290 pixels

 


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