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Photo # NH 41905:  USS Tarbell underway, circa 1919-1922

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Tarbell (Destroyer # 142, later DD-142), 1918-1945

USS Tarbell, a 1090-ton Wickes class destroyer, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Commissioned in late November 1918, she spent the last part of that year and the first half of 1919 in the waters off the U.S. Atlantic Coast and off western Europe. Transferred to the Pacific in July 1919, Tarbell served off the West Coast and, in 1920-1921, with the Asiatic Fleet. She was decommissioned in June 1922 and placed in reserve at San Diego, Califiornia.

Tarbell returned to commissioned service in May 1930, based as San Diego until January 1931, when she was shifted to Charleston, South Carolina. During the next five years the destroyer alternated between the Atlantic and Pacific and was again laid up in reserve in about late 1936. The outbreak of World War II in Europe brought her back into commission for Atlantic Neutrality patrol duty early in October 1939.

After the United States entered the conflict in December 1941, Tarbell remained in the Atlantic, escorting convoys and conducting antisubmarine patrols. During March-June 1942 she rescued survivors of several torpedoed merchant ships off the East Coast and in the Caribbean area. Refitted later in 1942 to improve her escort capabilities, Tarbell began trans-Atlantic convoy duties in May 1943. In addition, she was often assigned to screen aircraft carriers as part of antisubmarine hunter-killer task groups and during air crew training. In July 1945, with the European War concluded, the now very elderly USS Tarbell was decommissioned. She was sold for scrapping at the end of November 1945.

This page features, or provides links to, all the views we have related to USS Tarbell (Destroyer # 142, later DD-142).

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Tarbell (DD-142) -- World War II Views; and
  • Tarbell (Destroyer # 142, later DD-142) -- Actions, Activities and Miscellaneous Views.


    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 41905

    USS Tarbell
    (DD-142)

    Underway, circa 1919-1922.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98919

    USS Tarbell
    (Destroyer # 142)

    At sea in 1919.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant Charles Dutreaux.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 690 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57140

    USS Tarbell
    (Destroyer # 142), at left

    Steaming through the Gaillard Cut, during the Pacific Fleet's passage through the Panama Canal, 24 July 1919.
    USS Woolsey (Destroyer # 77) is immediately ahead of Tarbell.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42537

    Destroyers at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 1919


    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS Tarbell (Destroyer # 142);
    USS Thatcher (Destroyer # 162);
    USS Rizal (Destroyer # 174);
    USS Hart (Destroyer # 110);
    USS Hogan (Destroyer # 178);
    USS Gamble (Destroyer # 123);
    USS Ramsay (Destroyer # 124); and
    USS Williams (Destroyer # 108).

    Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 64527

    USS Tarbell
    (DD-142)

    In San Diego harbor, California, during the early 1930s.

    Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67846

    USS Tarbell
    (DD-142)

    In New York Harbor during the 1930s.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 47195

    USS Yarnall (DD-143)

    and
    USS Tarbell (DD-142)

    Tied up together alongside a pier, during the 1930s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 47002

    USS Upshur
    (DD-144)
    and
    USS Tarbell (DD-142)

    Tied up in port, during the later 1930s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     


    In addition to the views referenced above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other photograph of USS Tarbell (DD-142). The following listing describes this image:

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


  • Photo #: 80-G-1024359
    USS Tarbell (DD-142) in a harbor, probably during the 1930s, with other destroyers beyond her.
    Port bow surface view, showing the ship underway at low speed.


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

    The image listed above is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Tarbell (DD-142) -- World War II Views; and
  • Tarbell (Destroyer # 142, later DD-142) -- Actions, Activities and Miscellaneous Views.


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


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