Photo #: NH 52105
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania
Destroyers awaiting decommissioning, in the Yard's Reserve Basin,
4 March 1919.
Ships present include (from left to right):
USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8);
USS Perry (Destroyer # 11);
USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15);
USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14); and
USS Worden (Destroyer # 16).
Note Lawrence's after torpedo tube (with torpedo visible)
and pattern camouflage; 48-star flags, radio masts and signal
flags on several of these destroyers; and small craft moored
to the ships' sterns.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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