USS Clark, a 1805-ton Porter class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in May 1936. During the later 1930s and early 1940s she served in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, often in her designed role as flagship of a squadron or division of smaller destroyers. Clark steamed across the Pacific to Australia in March and April 1941, one of a number of U.S. warship cruises made in that year as the prospects of violent conflict with Japan became ever-stronger. After the war's abrupt arrival in December 1941, she escorted convoys between the U.S. west coast, Hawaii and the south Pacific. Clark also screened aircraft carriers when they delivered air strikes on New Guinea in March 1942 and guarded French Frigate Shoals during the early June Battle of Midway.
Clark returned to the south Pacific in the summer of 1942, mainly protecting shipping during the Guadalcanal Campaign. She was one of the aircraft carrier Enterprise's escorts during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in mid-November. The following month Clark moved to the Panama Canal Zone area to serve as the Southeast Pacific Force flagship, operating along the South American coast until August 1944.
After an overhaul, Clark began new duties escorting convoys across the Atlantic, making six round-trip voyages between September 1944 and April 1945. In October 1945, with World War II finally at an end, she was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USS Clark was scrapped in 1946.
This page features all the views we have of USS Clark (DD-361).
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Photo #: NH 97965 USS Clark (DD-361) Underway in San Diego Harbor, California, March 1938. Photographed from USS Ranger (CV-4). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 535 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 66260 USS Clark (DD-361) In Sydney Harbor, New South Wales, Australia, in March 1941 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-45346 USS Clark (DD-361) Underway near the Panama Canal Zone, 26 May 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 585 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-302261 USS Clark (DD-361) Underway off the U.S. east coast, 21 January 1945. Photographed from a aircraft of squadron VJ-15. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 133KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-K-14467 (Color) Destroyer Division Six, Destroyer Squadron Three (DesDiv6, DesRon3) At San Diego, California, in October 1941. Ships are (from inboard): USS Clark (DD-361), Squadron flagship; USS Case (DD-370), Division flagship; USS Cummings (DD-365); USS Shaw (DD-373); USS Tucker (DD-374). Note that these destroyers are painted in at least two different camouflage schemes. There is a tuna boat passing in the background. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 520 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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The following photographs show USS Clark (DD-361) in the background of views of other ships:
Photo #: NH 74280 USS Selfridge (DD-357) Leading USS Clark (DD-361) during exercises at sea, circa the later 1930s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-171113 USS Conyngham (DD-371) Maneuvering at sea with USS Reid (DD-369) and USS Clark (DD-361), during the later 1930s. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 24 May 2002