This page features all the views we have taken on board USS Bainbridge (DD-246) or related to her construction.
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Photo #: NH 56318 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Scene in the ship's pilothouse, during the 1920s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 78332 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Ship's Officers and Crew, posed on her foredeck, 1922. Lieutenant Commander Walter Atlee Edwards, her Commanding Officer, is seated in the second row, directly behind the center man holding the life ring. Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 570 pixels Note: The original print is cracked in several places as a result of having been kept rolled prior to donation. |
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Photo #: NH 78350 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Ship's Company is commended by Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, for their actions in rescuing 482 survivors from the burning French transport Vinh-Long in the Sea of Marmora on 16 December 1922. This photograph was taken sometime after that date. Among the officers standing near the starboard deck edge are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Long; Lieutenant Commander Walter Atlee Edwards, ship's Commanding Officer (directly behind RAdm. Long); and Captain Charles M. Tozer, Commander Destroyer Squadron 14 (holding his ear). Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 130KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 78351 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Senior officers present during ceremonies commending the Ship's Company for their actions in rescuing 482 survivors from the burning French transport Vinh-Long. The rescue took place in the Sea of Marmora, Turkey, on 16 December 1922. This photograph was taken sometime after that date. Those present are (from left to right): Captain Charles M. Tozer, Commander Destroyer Squadron 14; Rear Admiral Andrew Theodore Long, Commander U.S. Naval Forces in Europe; and Lieutenant Commander Walter Atlee Edwards, ship's Commanding Officer. Photographed on Bainbridge's foredeck. Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-50558 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) View on deck, looking aft from the bow, showing the pilothouse face and foremast. Photographed at the New York Navy Yard on 17 August 1943. Note 20mm gun installed atop the pilothouse; searchlight; and radar antennas on the foremast. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 94KB; 620 x 675 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-50560 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) View on deck, looking toward the stern from atop the after deckhouse, showing depth charge racks. Photographed at the New York Navy Yard on 17 August 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 116KB; 600 x 675 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. Note: Magazine atop the bollard in the lower left, open to an advertisement for a book entitled "I Was Hitler's Doctor". An enlargement of this feature is seen in Photo # 19-N-50560 (cropped). |
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Photo #: NH 56312 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Launching, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, 12 June 1920. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 117KB; 585 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 56313 Miss Juliet Edith Greene, Sponsor of USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Holding the christening bottle during the ship's launching ceremonies, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, 12 June 1920. Miss Greene was Great-Great Granddaughter of Commodore William Bainbridge, in whose honor the ship was named. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 63KB; 590 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43609 New York Shipbuilding Corporation Shipyard, Camden, New Jersey Eleven destroyers fitting out in the Wet Basin between Piers 3 and 4. Photo is dated 28 September 1920. Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 43609 (complete caption). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-8229 USS Bainbridge (DD-246) Fitting out at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, 29 October 1920. Note that the captioning on the photograph identifies the ship as "Destroyer No. 249" and that the builder's hull number painted on the bow is "238". Both of these indicate that the ship may actually be USS Hopkins (DD-249), and not Bainbridge. Also note the temporary wooden railing installed around the destroyer's deck edge. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 95KB; 585 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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For other pictures of this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 11 October 2002