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Photo # NH 96687:  USS Billingsley, photographed during the early 1920s

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USS Billingsley (Destroyer # 293, later DD-293), 1920-1931

USS Billingsley, a 1,215-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built at Squantum, Massachusetts and was commissioned in March 1920. She then spennt a period in reserve, during which she received the hull number DD-293. Billingsley operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean between 1922 and 1924. She then deployed to Europe and the Mediterranean, where she assisted refugees in the Near East and, in the spring of 1925, served as plane guard for the North Atlantic crossing of the Army "Around-the-World Flight." Returning home in late 1925, she conducted additional routine operations along the east coast until reporting for inactivation in 1929. Billingsley was sold for scrapping in January 1931.

This page features our only views of USS Billingsley (Destroyer # 293, later DD-293).


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Photo #: NH 96687

USS Billingsley (DD-293)


Photographed during the early 1920s by N. Moser, New York City.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 61682

USS Billingsley (DD-293)


Firing her 4" guns while steaming at high speed in 1926.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93983

USS Flusser (DD-289),
USS Billingsley (DD-293),
and
USS Dale (DD-290)


At Venice, Italy, in 1924-25.

Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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The following photograph shows what appears to be USS Billingsley (DD-293) in the background of a view of another subject:

Photo #: NH 42057

USS Capella (AK-13)


At the New York Navy Yard on 26 September 1922 showing an Army Model 1919 16" gun stowed on the port side forward for shipment to Pearl Harbor.
Ships in the background include a Kanawha (AO-1) class oiler and two destroyers, one of which appears to be USS Billingsley (DD-293).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Page made 1 June 1999
New image added 21 February 2003