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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95, later DD-95), 1918-1939
USS Bell, a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little
class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned
at the end of July 1918. During the remainder of World War I she
was employed on north Atlantic convoy duty and in December 1918
helped escort the transport George
Washington, which was carrying President Woodrow Wilson
to Europe for post-war diplomatic negotiations. Bell remained
active with the Atlantic Fleet for another year and a half. In
July 1920, soon after being placed in reserve status, she was
designated DD-95. The destroyer was formally decommissioned in
June 1922 and laid up. She was reduced to a hulk in August 1936,
stricken from the Navy List in July 1937 and sold in April 1939.
USS Bell was named in honor of Rear Admiral Henry
H. Bell (1808-1868), who lost his life in a boat accident
in January 1868, while commanding the Asiatic Squadron.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Bell (Destroyer # 95, later DD-95).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 56370
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
Running builder's trials, circa mid-1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 56371
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
Running builder's trials, circa mid-1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 56371-A
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
Running builder's trials, circa mid-1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 56372
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
Running builder's trials, circa mid-1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 56373
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
Running builder's trials, circa mid-1918.
Note the canvas windsail ventilators rigged amidships.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 100439
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
At anchor in 1918, while painted in World War I camouflage.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1985.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 78141
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95)
At Ponta Delgada, Azores, in May 1919, with the flying boat NC-4
taxiing by in the foreground.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 43024
Fore River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Destroyers fitting out on 20 June 1918.
USS Murray (Destroyer # 97) is in the foreground, with
USS Stribling (Destroyer # 96) outboard. In the middle
distance are USS Bell (Destroyer # 95), with USS Dyer
(Destroyer # 84) inboard of her. These four destroyers had builder's
hull numbers 303, 302, 301 and 279, respectively, and these numbers
are painted in small numerals on the ships' bows.
A submarine is on the building ways in the background, under
the large crane. It is probably USS S-1 (Submarine # 105)
or one of the AA-1 class.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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USS Bell is seen in the left middle distance in the
following photograph:
Photo #: NH 56369
U.S. Atlantic Fleet destroyers
In a harbor, 23 April 1919.
USS Bell (Destroyer # 95) is at left. USS Hazelwood
(Destroyer # 107) is in the center background. USS Ludlow
(Destroyer # 112) is in the right middle, with an unidentified
destroyer beyond her.
Note the fuel oil barge and tug alongside the unidentified destroyer
in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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