Photo #: NH 99867
Destroyers in port, 4 January 1914
These are probably members of the First Division, U.S. Atlantic
Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, which included (on 1 January 1914): Smith
(Destroyer # 17), Lamson (Destroyer # 18), Preston
(Destroyer # 19), Flusser (Destroyer # 20) and Reid
(Destroyer # 21). Smith and Lamson had their smokestacks
arranged like the ship in the middle (1-2-1). Preston
had four equally-spaced smokestacks, like the destroyer second
from right.
This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34) crewmember, a three-stack member of the Second
Division, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla. A destroyer of
that division is visible in the left background.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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