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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3), 1902-1917
USS Chauncey, a 420-ton Bainbridge class destroyer
built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was completed in November
1902. Following a few months in reserve, she was placed in full
commission in February 1903 and operated along the Atlantic coast
for most of the year. In December 1903 Chauncey began a
long cruise, in company with four other destroyers, that took
her to the Far East by way of the Suez Canal. She spent more than
thirteen years as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet, primarily serving
in the Philippines and off China.
At the beginning of August 1917, Chauncey left the Philippines
to begin World War I convoy and patrol duty in the eastern Atlantic.
While escorting a convoy during the night of 19 November 1917,
she collided with the British merchant steamer Rose and
was sunk. This wartime accident, some 110 miles west of Gibraltar,
took the lives of twenty-one members of Chauncey's crew,
including her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant
Commander Walter E. Reno.
USS Chauncey was named in honor of Commodore
Isaac Chauncey (1772-1840), a hero of the War of 1812, whose
Naval service extended from 1798 to 1840.
This page features, or provides links to, all the views
we have related to USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3).
For more images related to this ship, see:
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
-- Part II; and
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
-- Memorials.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 55093
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
Photographed prior to World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 55092
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
Photographed circa late 1903, just before starting her cruise
from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Manila, Philippine Islands,
with the First Torpedo Flotilla, under the command of Lieutenant
Lloyd H. Chandler.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 73124
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
In the "Dewey" floating drydock, Olongapo Naval Station,
Philippine Islands, circa 1910.
Donation of Mr. F.M. Deats, 1963.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 73125
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
Stern view, taken in the "Dewey" floating drydock,
Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910.
Donation of Mr. F.M. Deats, 1963.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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The following photograph shows a ship that MAY be USS Chauncey
(Destroyer # 3):
Photo #: NH 54426
Bainbridge Class Destroyer
Coaling from the beach in the Philippine Islands.
This destroyer is either USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1),
USS Barry (Destroyer # 2) or USS Chauncey (Destroyer
# 3).
The donor's original caption, which incorrectly identifies the
ship as USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5), reads: "...coaling
from the beach near Zamboanga, P.I., 1916. Mooring lines are
tied to old stock anchors on the beach. The coal was carried
aboard in baskets on a pole by two natives. This was Pocahontas
coal from West. Va. The rest of the Asiatic Fleet used Japanese
coal."
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Fred Iverson collection.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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For more images related to this ship, see:
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
-- Part II; and
USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3)
-- Memorials.
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