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Photo # NH 54122:  USS Fairfax ready for launching, 15 December 1917

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USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93, later DD-93), 1918-1940 --
Part II


This page features additional views related to USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93, later DD-93).

For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93, later DD-93).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    Photo #: NH 54134

    USS Fairfax
    (Destroyer # 93)

    Underway with the survivors of S.S. Lucia on board, circa 18 October 1918. They were later transferred to USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5).
    Note Fairfax' pattern camouflage.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 415 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41727

    Sinking of S.S. Lucia
    , 17 October 1918

    Motor launch arrives alongside USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) with a load of survivors from the American steamship Lucia.
    This boat is from USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41728

    Sinking of S.S. Lucia
    , 17 October 1918

    Motor launch from USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5) leaving USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) with survivors from the American steamship Lucia.
    Fairfax is visible in the background.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54136

    USS Fairfax
    (Destroyer # 93)

    In harbor, circa late 1918 or early 1919.
    Photographed by Zimmer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54135

    USS Fairfax
    (Destroyer # 93)

    View of the ship's forward and midships superstructure, probably taken at Brest, France, in late 1918.
    Photographed by Zimmer.
    Note the small identification number painted below her pilothouse, canvas weather screens, and the 1-pounder automatic anti-aircraft gun mounted by her forward smokestacks.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54137

    USS Fairfax
    (Destroyer # 93)

    At anchor, 11 October 1919.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 67728

    USS Fairfax
    (DD-93)

    At Poughkeepsie, New York, 17 June 1939.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 76141

    Hiroshi Saito
    (1886-1939),
    Late Japanese Ambassador to the United States.

    Page from the "Japan Times Weekly", published in Tokyo, 20 April 1939, page 523, with fine-screen halftone reproductions of photographs taken at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on 18 March 1939, as Ambassador Saito's remains were embarked on USS Astoria (CA-34) for return to Japan. He had died in Washington, D.C., on 26 February 1939.
    Astoria is seen in the lower photograph, as the launch Anita Clay approaches with Ambassador's Saito's remains on board.
    The destroyer in the background of the center photograph is USS Fairfax (DD-93).

    Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 259KB; 840 x 1225 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70607

    USS Fairfax
    (Destroyer # 93)

    Being prepared for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 15 December 1917.

    Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 54129

    USS Fairfax
    (Destroyer # 93)

    Ready for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 December 1917.
    The Sponsor, Mrs. H. George, is standing on the platform at the ship's bow, holding the christening bottle.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 550 x 765 pixels

     


    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93, later DD-93).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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