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Photo # NH 55093:  USS Chauncey.  Photographed prior to World War I

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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.


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

    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.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     


    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.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     

    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3) -- Part II; and
  • USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3) -- Memorials.


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


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