USS Dale, a 420-ton Bainbridge class destroyer built at Richmond, Virginia, was commissioned into reserve in October 1902. Placed in full commission in February 1903, she operated along the U.S. Atlantic coast during most of the year and, in December, began a long voyage to the Far East by way of the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal. Following arrival in April 1904, Dale served in Philippine and Chinese waters for the next thirteen years as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet.
Dale left the Philippines in August 1917, after U.S. entry into World War I made it essential that all available destroyers be used for anti-submarine service in the Atlantic. She patrolled out of Gibraltar from October 1917 until the end of the fighting made possible her departure in December 1918. Generally inactive after her return to the U.S. East Coast, USS Dale was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in June 1919. She was sold for scrapping in early January 1920.
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, and provides links to, all the views we have related to USS Dale (Destroyer # 4).
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Photo #: NH 77118 USS Dale (Destroyer # 4) Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1903-1916. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98139 USS Dale (Destroyer # 4) Underway in Philippine waters, circa 1910-1913. Collection of Phillip H. Wilson. Donated by Mrs. Pauline M. Wilson, 1979. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61544-B Dust Storm off the African Coast Photograph taken from the bridge of USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5) by Machinist's Mate May, during the First Torpedo Flotilla's transit of the Mediterranean Sea, en route to the Philippines by way of the Suez Canal, circa late 1903 or early 1904. The air was filled with red dust from the desert. USS Dale (Destroyer # 4) is in the foreground, with USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3) in the left distance. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 39KB; 740 x 250 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98599-KN (color) "First Torpedo Flotilla. During a Storm in the Mediterranean en-route to China February 23, 1904" Painting by an unidentified artist, depicting the destroyers Bainbridge, Barry, Chauncey, Dale and Decatur in heavy seas. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Donation of Mrs. Anne Garagusi, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 530 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52102 First Torpedo Flotilla Steaming in close formation off Chefoo, China, in 1905, while under the command of Lieutenant Dudley W. Knox. Ships present are (as numbered): 1. USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5); 2. USS Dale (Destroyer # 4); 3. USS Barry (Destroyer # 2); 4. USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3); and 5. USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1). Donation of Mrs. J.R. Kean, 1938. Courtesy of Captain Dudley W. Knox, USN (Retired). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 88586 USS Dale (Destroyer # 4) and USS Chauncey (Destroyer # 3) Underway in Philippine waters, en route to Cebu, circa 1914-1916. Collection of C.A. Shively. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103623 Asiatic Fleet Ships dressed with flags In honor of George Washington's Birthday, 22 February 1915, probably in a Philippine Islands harbor. The three ships in the distance are (from left to right): Collection of C.A. Shively. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 93977 USS Dale (Destroyer # 4) In drydock at Gibraltar, 1918. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43036 Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania Destroyers awaiting decommissioning in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, during the Spring of 1919. Photographed by La Tour. Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 43036 (complete caption). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 500 pixels |
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The following photographs show either USS Dale or her sister ship, USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5):
Note: In addition to the views referenced above, Photo # NH 52103 was taken from USS Dale during operations with other destroyers off Chefoo, China, during the summer of 1905.
For more pictures related to USS Dale, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 30 October 2002
New image added 10 September 2006