Photo #: NH 42539 (complete caption)
"Red Lead Row", San Diego Destroyer Base, California
Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers
tied up there. Ships present are identified as
(left to right, in the right diagonal row): Stansbury
(DD-180); MacKenzie (DD-175); Renshaw (DD-176);
Howard (DD-179); Gillis (DD-260); Tingey
(DD-272); McLanahan (DD-264); Swasey (DD-273);
Morris (DD-271); Bailey (DD-269); Tattnall
(DD-125); Breese (DD-122); Radford (DD-120); Aaron
Ward (DD-132) -- probably; Ramsey (DD-124); Montgomery
(DD-121); and Lea (DD-118).
(left to right, in the middle diagonal row): Wickes
(DD-75); Thornton (DD-270); Meade (DD-274); Crane
(DD-109); Evans (DD-78); McCawley (DD-276); Doyen
(DD-280); Elliot (DD-146); Henshaw (DD-278); Moody
(DD-277); Meyer (DD-279); Sinclair (DD-275); Turner
(DD-259); Philip (DD-76); Hamilton (DD-141); Boggs
(DD-136); Claxton (DD-140); Ward (DD-139); Hazelwood
(DD-107) or Kilty (DD-137); Kennison (DD-138);
Jacob Jones (DD-130); Aulick (DD-258); Babbitt
(DD-128); Twiggs (DD-127); and Badger (DD-126).
(left to right, in the left diagonal row): Shubrick
(DD-268); Edwards (DD-265); Palmer (DD-161); Welles
(DD-257); Mugford (DD-105); Upshur (DD-144); Greer
(DD-145); Wasmuth (DD-338); Hogan (DD-178); O'Bannon
(DD-177); and -- possibly -- Decatur (DD-341).
(Nested alongside wharf in left center, left to right):
Prairie (AD-5); Buffalo (AD-8); Trever (DD-339);
and Perry (DD-340). Minesweepers just astern of this group
are Partridge (AM-16) and Brant (AM-24).
Nearest ship in the group of destroyers at far left is Dent
(DD-116). The others with her are unidentified.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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