Photo #: NH 50010
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
Twin 4"/50 gun mount in action on the destroyer's forecastle,
1918.
Note the pattern camouflage painted on the face of Stockton's
forward superstructure, and the pipe rails installed to keep
the gun from firing into the ship's structure.
This photograph was long identified as having been taken on either
USS Hovey (DD-208) or USS Long (DD-209). However,
neither of these ships was in service until October 1919, about
a year after the photo was taken. Camouflage pattern confirms
identification as Stockton, which is listed in the 1919
"Ships' Data" book as carrying one twin and three single
four-inch guns.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99599
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
Crewmembers exercising with the ship's twin 4"/50 gun mount,
circa 1918.
View looks forward from Stockton's pilothouse.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.
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Photo #: NH 2667-A
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
4"/50 twin gun mount on the ship's foredeck, while she
was in a British port, 1918.
This was the only such gun mount carried on a U.S. destroyer
during World War I.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 2667-B
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
4"/50 twin gun mount on the ship's foredeck, while she
was in a British port, 1918.
Note the voice tube attached to the left gun, near the sight
setter's station.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41977
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
Approaches another ship, while operating at sea off the Irish
coast in 1918.
Note the twin 4"/50 gun mount on Stockton's bow,
and the pattern camouflage on the other ship.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 50841
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
View on the bridge, while the ship was on patrol off the Irish
coast, circa 1918.
Note canvas-protected chart table at right, Lieutenant using
binoculars to scan the sea for German submarines, and helmsman
at left.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41976
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
Crew of one of the ship's 4"/50 guns on "stand-by",
"waiting for a shot at a German submarine", during
operations in British waters, 1918.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41975
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
View on board, looking aft from the port side of the bridge,
while the ship was rolling at sea in 1918.
Stockton's port midships 4"/50 gun is in the right
center.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41974
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
View on board at sunset, while the ship was operating off the
Irish coast in 1918.
View looks aft from the port side of the bridge.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 50840
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
View on board, looking aft from the midship's deckhouse while
the ship's crew was at fire quarters leading out hose, circa
1918.
Note ventillators and torpedo tubes.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 50839
USS Stockton (Destroyer # 73)
View on board, looking forward from the after deckhouse while
the ship was on patrol duty off the Irish coast, circa 1918.
Note smokestacks, boat davits and other midships details, and
Stockton's roll to starboard.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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