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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88, later DD-88), 1918-1940
USS Robinson, a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little
class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned
in mid-October 1918. Early the next month the new destroyer passed
through the Panama Canal, en route to Norfolk, Virginia, arriving
shortly before the 11 November Armistice brought World War I's
active combat to an end. During the next four years Robinson
primarily operated along the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean
Sea. In May 1919, as one of the large number of destroyers assigned
to lifeguard duties in connection with the trans-Atlantic flight
of the NC flying boats, she briefly left those areas to steam
north toward Newfoundland and then east to the Azores.
Decommissioned early in August 1922, Robinson was laid
up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for nearly two decades. She was
recommissioned in August 1940, as the World War II crisis intensified,
but in November of that year was transferred to Great Britain
as part of the destroyers for bases deal. As HMS Newmarket,
she served in the Royal Navy as a convoy escort from late 1940
until September 1943, and as an aircraft target ship from spring
1944 until after Germany's surrender a year later. The old ship
was scrapped later in 1945.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Robinson (Destroyer # 88, later DD-88).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 94140
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88)
Running trials in the San Francisco Bay area, California, circa
October 1918.
Note her pattern camouflage.
Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 94141
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88)
Running trials in the San Francisco Bay area, California, circa
October 1918.
Note her pattern camouflage.
Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 83559
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88)
Underway in New York Harbor, in late 1918 or early 1919. She
is steaming past USS George Washington (ID # 3018), seen
in the right background.
Fort Richmond, on Staten Island, is in the left background.
Note Robinson's pattern camouflage.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 103174
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88), at left,
and
USS George Washington (ID # 3018), at right
Underway in New York Harbor, in late 1918 or early 1919.
Note Robinson's pattern camouflage scheme.
The original image is printed on postal card ("AZO")
stock.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 83560
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88)
Underway in New York Harbor, in late 1918 or early 1919.
Note her pattern camouflage, and that on the freighter in the
right distance.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 103177
USS George Washington (ID # 3018), left center,
escorted by
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88), right center
At sea, probably when George Washington carried President
Woodrow Wilson to France in December 1918. A battleship is also
present, in the extreme right distance.
Note Robinson's pattern camouflage scheme.
Collection of Robert S. Waters. Donated by Mrs. Alice W. Thomas,
1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 82974
USS McKee (Destroyer # 87)
and
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88)
Outboard in a nest of four destroyers, in port in 1919.
Photographed from USS Pocahontas (ID # 3044).
Collection of the USS Pocahontas Reunion Association,
1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 103218
Camouflage Type N-12, Design K
Plan prepared by the Bureau of Construction and Repair in 1918,
for a camouflage scheme for U.S. Navy "Flush Deck"
type destroyers. It shows the ship's starboard side, bow, stern
and superstructure ends, and was approved by Naval Constructor
John D. Beuret, USN.
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88) is known to have worn this
camouflage pattern. USS Colhoun (Destroyer # 85) also
appears to have received it.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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In addition to the images presented above, the National
Archives appears to hold other views of USS Robinson (Destroyer
# 88, later DD-88). The following list features some of these
images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
Photo #: 80-G-1035005
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88) underway at high speed in
the Santa Barbara Channel, California, during her trials in October
1918.
Port broadside (slightly toward the bow) surface view. She is
painted in pattern camouflage.
Photo #: 80-G-1035004
USS Robinson (DD-88) in harbor, circa 1919-1922.
Port bow (rather toward the broadside) surface view. The ship
is painted overall gray, with large (non-countershaded) numerals
("88") on her bow.
Reproductions of these images should be available through
the National Archives photographic
reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical
Center.
The images listed in this box are NOT
in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain
them using the procedures described in our page "How to
Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
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