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Photo # NH 90545-KN: Color-tinted photo of USS Black Hawk and six destroyers at Chefoo, China, during the 1930s

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Black Hawk (AD-9) --
1920-1946 Views of the Ship with Destroyers Alongside


This page features all the views we have of USS Black Hawk (AD-9) with other ships alongside, from 1920 until the end of her service.

For selected views of this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Black Hawk (AD-9, originally ID # 2140), 1918-1948.


    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 56399

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    At anchor with USS Stewart (DD-224) and USS John D. Edwards (DD-216) alongside, at Chefoo, China, 21 July 1924.
    Photographed from an airplane of Torpedo Squadron 20, based on USS Jason (AC-12).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-1025120

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    At Singapore, circa 1934, with six destroyers of the 39th Division alongside.
    The destroyers are (from left to right):
    USS McCormick (DD-223);
    USS Bulmer (DD-222);
    USS Edsall (DD-219);
    USS Simpson (DD-221);
    USS MacLeish (DD-220); and
    USS Parrott (DD-218).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-1025121

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    At Manila, Philippine Islands, 15 November 1935, with four destroyers and USS Heron (AM-10) nested alongside.
    The four destroyers are (from left to right):
    USS Whipple (DD-217);
    USS John D. Edwards (DD-216);
    USS Smith Thompson (DD-212); and
    USS Barker (DD-213).
    All ships are "full dressed" with flags in honor of the inauguration of Philippine President Manuel Quezon.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 99688

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    Moored in a Far Eastern harbor during the 1930s.
    Destroyers alongside are (from left to right):
    USS Smith Thompson (DD-212);
    USS Barker (DD-213);
    USS John D. Edwards (DD-216); and
    USS Whipple (DD-217).

    Collection of MMC Charles H. Randall, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99689

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    Moored in a Far Eastern harbor during the 1930s, with a minesweeper and two destroyers alongside.
    Destroyer in the middle is USS Barker (DD-213). The other may be USS Paul Jones (DD-230).

    Collection of Norman W. Shaw, who served in Barker.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90545-KN (color)

    USS Black Hawk (AD-9)

    Color-tinted photograph by the Ah-Fung O.K. Photo Service, showing the ship moored at Chefoo, China, during the 1930s.
    The six destroyers alongside include (from left to right):
    USS Pillsbury (DD-227);
    USS Pope (DD-225);
    USS John D. Ford (DD-228);
    USS Paul Jones (DD-230);
    USS Peary (DD-226); and
    USS Parrott (DD-218).

    Courtesy of James E. Thompson, 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 72264

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    Moored at Chefoo, China, circa 1936, with six destroyers alongside, including (from left to right):
    USS John D. Ford (DD-228);
    USS Paul Jones (DD-230);
    USS Smith Thompson (DD-212);
    USS John D. Edwards (DD-216);
    USS Barker (DD-213); and
    USS Whipple (DD-217).

    Collection of Rear Admiral Paulus P. Powell, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95960

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    Panoramic photograph of the ship moored at Chefoo, China, with destroyers and a minesweeper nested alongside, circa the late 1930s. Ships alongside Black Hawk are (from left to right):
    USS Paul Jones (DD-230);
    USS John D. Ford (DD-228);
    USS Peary (DD-226); and
    USS Heron (AVP-2), wearing her old minesweeper number: AM-10.
    A Grumman JF amphibian, one of the airplanes tended by Heron is moored at right.

    Courtesy of Photographer's Mate First Class Harold Gerwien, USN, 1986.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 1200 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90040

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    Panoramic photograph of the ship moored at Chefoo, China, during the 1930s.
    Destroyers alongside, from Destroyer Division 14, are (from left to right):
    USS Bulmer (DD-222);
    USS Pillsbury (DD-227);
    USS Pope (DD-225);
    USS John D. Ford (DD-228);
    USS Edsall (DD-219); and
    USS Peary (DD-226).

    Courtesy of Walter R. Woodward, 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 77KB; 1200 x 525 pixels

    Note:
    The original photographic print was color tinted, but our copy is in black and white only.

     
    Photo #: NH 90544-KN (color)

    Chefoo, China

    U.S. warships inside and outside the breakwater, during the 1930s.
    Color-tinted photograph by the Ah-Fung O.K. Photo Service.
    Among the ships present are USS Black Hawk (AD-9), in left center, with a nest of four destroyers alongside. USS Whipple (DD-217) is the outboard unit of these four. USS Heron (AM-10) is alongside the breakwater, at right. Left-most of the four destroyers outside the breakwater is USS Stewart (DD-224).

    Courtesy of James E. Thompson, 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90041

    Chefoo, China


    Panoramic photograph of Chefoo harbor during the 1930s.
    USS Black Hawk (AD-9) is moored in the center, with destroyers of Destroyer Division 14 alongside. Two U.S. Navy minesweepers are by the breakwater and a gunboat is anchored off shore, at the extreme right.

    Courtesy of Walter R. Woodward, 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 51KB; 1200 x 490 pixels

    Note:
    The original photographic print was color tinted, but our copy is in black and white only.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-354884

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    With six destroyers alongside, probably at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in July 1945.
    The destroyers are (from left to right):
    USS Hawkins (DD-873);
    USS Ordronaux (DD-617);
    USS Boyle (DD-600);
    USS Champlin (DD-601);
    USS Swanson (DD-443); and
    USS Franks (DD-554).
    Note the personnel boat in the foreground, heading for a landing stage alongside Black Hawk's bow.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-354885

    USS Black Hawk
    (AD-9)

    With six destroyers alongside, probably at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in July 1945.
    The destroyers are (from left to right):
    USS Hawkins (DD-873);
    USS Ordronaux (DD-617);
    USS Boyle (DD-600);
    USS Champlin (DD-601);
    USS Swanson (DD-443); and
    USS Franks (DD-554).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For selected views of this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Black Hawk (AD-9, originally ID # 2140), 1918-1948.


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


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