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Photo # NH 49805:  USS Tucker making 30.03 knots on trials, 19 March 1916

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USS Tucker (Destroyer # 57, later DD-57), 1916-1936.
Renamed DD-57 in 1933

USS Tucker, a 1090-ton destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in April 1916. She operated along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean area for the next year. In May 1917, a month after the United States entered World War I, she steamed across the Atlantic to begin combat service in the waters off the British Isles. Based at Queenstown, Ireland, she was employed on convoy and anti-submarine patrol service until June 1918, when her base was shifted to Brest, France. During her wartime operations, Tucker rescued survivors of two merchant ships and the French cruiser Dupetit Thouars. In August 1918 she also delivered a depth charge attack on a German U-boat, but with inconclusive results.

Tucker returned to the U.S. in December 1918, a month after the fighting had ended. She spent most of the next year in the New England area and was in reserve status at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between October 1919 and May 1921, when she was placed out of commission. In July 1920, as the Navy implemented its hull number system, she was designated DD-57.

In March 1926 Tucker was placed in service with the U.S. Coast Guard as part of the effort to enforce Prohibition. In addition to cruising along the Atlantic Coast in search of rum runners, in April 1933 she took part in rescue activities after the crash of the airship Akron. Tucker's Coast Guard service ended in June 1933 and she was returned to the Navy and laid up. In November of that year she was renamed DD-57, allowing the name Tucker to be assigned to the new destroyer DD-374. After brief use as a Sea Scout training ship at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, DD-57 was sold for scrapping in December 1936.

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Photo #: NH 49805

USS Tucker
(Destroyer # 57)

Making 30.03 knots on trials, 19 March 1916.
Note the ice accumulated amidships.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 49809

USS Tucker
(Destroyer # 57)

Underway while running trials, circa 19 March 1916.
Note the ice accumulated amidships.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94962-KN (color)

USS Tucker (Destroyer # 57)

Color-tinted photograph printed on a postal card, showing the destroyer underway in 1916 or 1917.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman, and published by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1917-1918. Note the World War I "Authorized by Censor" inscription printed at the top.
The original postal card was postmarked at Lynn, Massachusetts, on 12 June 1918.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99204

USS Tucker
(Destroyer # 57)

Under construction at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, on 1 January 1915.
Visible in the left background is USS Cushing (Destroyer # 55), which was launched on 16 January 1915.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 


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