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Photo # NH 76067-A:  USS Conyngham underway, circa 1919

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USS Conyngham (Destroyer # 58, later DD-58), 1916-1934.
Renamed DD-58 in 1933

USS Conyngham, a 1090-ton Tucker class destroyer, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Commissioned in January 1916, she took part in fleet exercises off the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean during the next year. In April 1917, soon after the United States entered World War I, Conyngham became one of the first U.S. destroyers to operate in the European combat zone. Based at Queenstown, Ireland, she conducted anti-submarine patrols, escorted convoys and rescued survivors of torpedoed ships during the rest of the conflict.

Returning home in December 1918, the destroyer participated in Caribbean maneuvers in February-April 1919 and helped cover the flying boat NC-4's trans-Atlantic flight in May of that year. Conyngham was in reserve for most of the following two years, but was active off the East Coast in 1921. Decommissioned in June 1922, she was loaned to U.S. Coast Guard in June 1924 and, as USCGC Conyngham (CG-2), spent nine years helping to enforce Prohibition laws. She was returned to the Navy in June 1933 and laid up as DD-58, her name having been taken for assignment to the new destroyer DD-371. The ship was sold for scrapping in August 1934.

USS Conyngham was named in honor of Captain Gustavus Conyngham (1747-1819), an important figure in the American Revolution's war against British commerce.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS USS Conyngham (Destroyer # 58, later DD-58).


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Photo #: NH 55381

USS Conyngham
(Destroyer # 58)

Making 29.10 knots while running trials on 7 December 1915.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 76067-A

USS Conyngham
(Destroyer # 58)

Underway, circa 1916.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image size: 79KB; 900 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 76067

USS Conyngham
(Destroyer # 58)

Underway, circa 1916.
Halftone reproduction of a photograph by O.W. Waterman, published in "Sea Power" magazine, May 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 505 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 60563

USS Conyngham
(Destroyer # 58)

In port, while painted in pattern camouflage, 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99010

USS Conyngham
(Destroyer # 58)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 11 February 1919.
Photographed by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston, Mass.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Crosby Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 83KB; 900 x 380 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 95794

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


Diagram of the fifth leg of the flight of the NC-4 aircraft, between Ponta Delgada, Azores, and Lisbon, Portugal, on 27 May 1919. It also shows the positions of the 14 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: 96KB; 900 x 430 pixels

 


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Page made 17 December 2003
New image added 11 December 2007