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Photo # NH 56363:  USS Beale at Queenstown, Ireland, 1918

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USS Beale (Destroyer # 40, later DD-40), 1912-1934

USS Beale, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in late August 1912. She served with the Atlantic Fleet during the next three years, with participation in the 1914 occupation of Vera Cruz providing a break from routine training and exercises. In early 1916 Beale began neutrality patrols along the East Coast and continued operations in that area after the United States entered World War I in April 1917.

Beale crossed the Atlantic to the European war zone early in 1918. Based at Queenstown, Ireland, she was assigned to anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort duties for the rest of the conflict. Returning to the U.S. in late 1918, she served in Atlantic Coast waters until decommissioned in October 1919. She was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1924. As USCGC Beale (CG-9), the destroyer helped enforce prohibition laws until October 1930, when she was returned to the Navy and placed in reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. USS Beale was stricken from the register of U.S. Naval vessels in July 1934 and scrapped later in that year.

USS Beale was named in honor of Brigadier General Edward F. Beale, U.S. Volunteers, (1822-1893), who, as a U.S. Navy Midshipman, played an important role in the war with Mexico.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Beale (Destroyer # 40, later DD-40).


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Photo #: NH 56363

USS Beale
(Destroyer # 40)

Moored to a bouy at Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918.
She is painted in pattern camouflage.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103743

USS Beale
(Destroyer # 40)

Underway in French waters in 1918, probably photographed from USS Mercury (ID # 3012).
Note Beale's pattern camouflage, and lifeboat and davits in the foreground.

Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 61498

British Steamship City of Glasgow


Torpedoed and sinking in the Irish Sea, 1 September 1918.
Photographed from USS Beale (Destroyer # 40), which rescued her crew.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 61401

British Steamship City of Glasgow


Torpedoed in the Irish Sea, 1 September 1918.
Photographed from USS Beale (Destroyer # 40), which rescued her crew before the steamer sank at 2:40 PM.
Note the ship's "dazzle" camouflage.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 505 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 61499

British Steamship City of Glasgow


Torpedoed and sinking in the Irish Sea, 1 September 1918.
Photographed from USS Beale (Destroyer # 40), which rescued her crew.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 540 pixels

 


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