Photo #: NH 99868
Destroyers in port, circa 1914
The ship in the center foreground, with four equally-spaced smokestacks,
is USS Macdonough (Destroyer # 9), which was assigned
to the Reserve Torpedo Division, Newport, Rhode Island, on 1
January 1914. Alongside her starboard side (in left center) is
USS Worden (Destroyer # 16), assigned at that time to
the Reserve Torpedo Division, Annapolis, Maryland. The destroyer
at far left is a member of the Second Division, U.S. Atlantic
Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, as shown by the numeral "2"
on her middle smokestack.
This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34) crewmember, a three-stack member of the Second
Division.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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