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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The following photograph shows what appears to be USS Billingsley (DD-293) in the background of a view of another subject:
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Page made 1 June 1999
New image added 21 February 2003