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Photo # NH 50019:  USS Cowell at the Boston Navy Yard, 19 March 1919

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USS Cowell (Destroyer # 167, later DD-167), 1919-1940

USS Cowell, a 1060-ton Little class destroyer, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in mid-March 1919, she was one of many destroyers stationed at intervals across the Atlantic to support the May 1919 trans-oceanic flight of the Navy NC flying boats. In late June and July Cowell steamed across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean Sea for a tour of duty in the Adriatic that lasted until late October 1919. For the next two and a half years, the destroyer operated periodically at sea on training service, but was mainly kept in East Coast ports in reserve status. She was placed out of commission in late June 1922 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where she remained for the next eighteen years.

Cowell was recommissioned in mid-June 1940 for Neutrality Patrol service in the Atlantic, but had only three months of this employment before she was decommissioned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and transferred to the British Navy. Renamed HMS Brighton, she served in the North Atlantic and, beginning in 1943, as an aircraft target ship in the British Isles. She was turned over to the Soviet Navy in July 1944 and, renamed Zharkyi, served in northern Russian waters. Returned to the British at the end of February 1949, she was scrapped shortly afterwards.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Cowell (Destroyer # 167, later DD-167).


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Photo #: NH 50019

USS Cowell
(Destroyer # 167)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 19 March 1919.
Panogramic photograph by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, # 11 Portland Street, Boston.
Note the canvas screens rigged around the ship's open pilothouse and midships deckhouse.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 72KB; 900 x 345 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 70859

USS Cowell
(DD-167)

At anchor, circa the early 1920s.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 485 pixels

Note:
This appears to be a cropped version of Photo # NH 70997.

 
Photo #: NH 70997

USS Cowell
(DD-167)

At anchor, circa the early 1920s.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 475 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 95792

Trans-Atlantic Flight of the "NC" Aircraft, May 1919


Diagram of the third leg of the flight of the NC-1, NC-3 and NC-4 aircraft, between Trepassy Bay, Newfoundland, and the Azores, during 16 May to 20 May 1919. It also shows the positions of the 21 U.S. Navy destroyers stationed along the way.
Printed by the Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, New York.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 109KB; 900 x 605 pixels

 


USS Cowell (Destroyer # 167) is partially visible at the far right of the following photograph of another ship:

Photo #: NH 50015

USS Palmer
(Destroyer # 161)

At Boston, Massachusetts, 12 April 1919.
The bow of USS Cowell (DD-167) is at right.
Panogramic photograph by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, # 11 Portland Street, Boston.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 900 x 335 pixels

 


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