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Photo # NH 55975:  USS Dale at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 11 June 1926

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USS Dale (Destroyer # 290, later DD-290), 1920-1931

USS Dale, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built at Squantum, Massachusetts as part of the Navy's World War I ship construction effort. Completed well after the end of that conflict, she was commissioned in February 1920 and operated off the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean area for the next four years. Between June 1924 and July 1925, Dale served in northwestern European waters and in the Mediterranean Sea. She then resumed her activities in the Western Atlantic area. Decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May 1930, USS Dale was sold for scrapping in January 1931.

USS Dale was named in honor of Commodore Richard Dale (1756-1826), who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and in the United States Navy in the late 1790s and early 1800s.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Dale (Destroyer # 290, later DD-290).


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Photo #: NH 55975

USS Dale (DD-290)


At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 11 June 1926, during the National Sesquicentennial exhibit there.
Ships at left are USS Cheyenne (IX-4), inboard, and USS S-12 (SS-117). The stern of USS Olympia (CL-15) is visible at right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 55117

USS Cheyenne (IX-4)
, inboard at left;
USS S-12 (SS-117), outboard at left; and
USS Dale (DD-290)

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 14 June 1926, during the National Sesquicentennial exhibit there.
The small boat and Sailor, in the foreground, are on life-saving service to protect exhibit visitors.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93983

USS Flusser (DD-289),
USS Billingsley (DD-293),
and
USS Dale (DD-290)


At Venice, Italy, in 1924-25.

Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 98141

USS Dale
(Destroyer # 290)

Mrs. Andrew J. Peters (Martha Phillips), ship's Sponsor and wife of the Mayor of Boston, with her party at Dale's christening ceremonies, 19 November 1919.
The ship was built at Bethlehem Steel Company's Victory Destroyer Plant, Squantum, Massachusetts.

Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 43166

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Interior of the wet slips, with the incomplete USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367) visible just behind the structural framework at left.
Note barrels and other components for 4"/50 guns, in the left foreground, and railroad tank cars.
Some of the material present is marked for Hulls 369 and 370 (respectively USS Flusser, Destroyer # 289, and USS Dale, Destroyer # 290).
Photograph is dated 18 November 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 43167

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Interior of the wet slips, with USS Lardner (Destroyer # 286, builder's Hull # 366) fitting out at right. Further to the right, with smokestacks barely visible behind the building framework, is USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367), which is also fitting out.
Note barrels, mountings, shields and base rings for 4"/50 guns, in the foreground, and warning signs. The largest of the latter, at right, forbids smoking due to the presence of fuel oil. Smaller signs state: "Coal Shortage" "Every leak in air lines Means Waste of Coal".
Some of the material present is marked for Hull 370 (USS Dale, Destroyer # 290).
Photograph probably taken circa 18 November 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Additional image:

A good view of USS Dale (DD-290), taken in the vicinity of Toulon, France, is available from the noted French photographic firm of Marius Bar. This photograph shows the ship from off her port bow, underway at low speed with a shoreline in the background. Though dated 1926, it was probably taken during Dale's 1924-1925 European cruise.

For additional information on this item, the availability of reproductions and usage rights, contact Marius Bar, whose Internet Site can be readily found via standard Internet search engines.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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