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Photo # NH 64528:  USS Elliot off San Diego, California, 17 April 1933

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Elliot (Destroyer # 146, later DD-146, DMS-4 & AG-104), 1919-1946

USS Elliot was a 1090-ton Wickes class destroyer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Commissioned in January 1919 she deployed to the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean in April-June 1919 and in July passed through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. In March 1920 Elliot left the West Coast for the western Pacific. Serving with the Asiatic Fleet for the next year and a half, she operated in Philippine and Chinese waters, with the latter duty including a trip up the Yangtse River in June 1920. The destroyer was decommissioned at San Diego, California, in May 1922, several months after her return from the Far East.

Elliot returned to commissioned service in February 1930. Thereafter she was generally stationed in the Pacific, but in 1934 participated in U.S. Fleet maneuvers in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The following year she began work towing high speed gunnery targets and later in the decade was used for experimental and training duties. In 1940 Elliot was converted to a high-speed minesweeper, receiving the hull number DMS-4 in November. She operated in the Hawaiian area for the remaining year of peace and the first half year of the Pacific War.

Sent to the Aleutians in July 1942, Elliot participated in a bombardment of Kiska in August and swept mines during the May 1943 invasion of Attu, but was mainly employed on patrol and escort service during her time in Alaskan waters. Returning south in June 1943 she was used for training and target towing for the rest of her career, initially at San Diego and, after August 1944, at Pearl Harbor. Elliot was redesignated AG-104 in June 1945 and returned to the West Coast for inactivation in July. Decommissioned in October 1945, USS Elliot was sold for scrapping in January 1946.

This page features, or provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS Elliot (Destroyer # 146, later DD-146, DMS-4 & AG-104).

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • Elliot (Destroyer # 146, later DD-146, DMS-4 & AG-104) -- Part II.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 54363

    USS Elliot (DD-146)


    At Spalato (Split), Yugoslavia, circa Spring 1919.
    Photographed by R.E. Wayne.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 88358

    USS Elliot (DD-146)


    Anchored at Chefoo, China, in 1920-1921.

    Courtesy of L.C. Lupin, 1978.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 525 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 64528

    USS Elliot (DD-146)


    Underway in San Diego harbor, California, 17 April 1933.

    Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 64529

    USS Elliot (DD-146)


    Underway in San Diego harbor, California, 17 April 1933.

    Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67692

    USS Elliot (DD-146)


    In a harbor, during the 1930s.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 420 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98639

    USS Elliot (DMS-4)


    Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 83216

    USS Elliot (DMS-4)


    Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98640

    USS Elliot (DMS-4)


    Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98641

    USS Elliot (DMS-4)


    Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98642

    USS Elliot (DMS-4)


    Plan view, aft, taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 October 1942.
    Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 177KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98643

    USS Elliot (DMS-4)


    Plan view, forward, taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 October 1942.
    Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 176KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     


    In addition to the views referenced above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other photograph of USS Elliot (DD-146). The following listing describes this image:

    The image listed below is NOT in the Naval History and Heritage Command's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: 80-G-1025129
    USS Elliot (DD-146) in a harbor, probably during the 1930s.
    Starboard quarter (rather toward the side) surface view, showing the ship at rest or underway at very low speed.


    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    The image listed above is NOT in the Naval History and Heritage Command's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • Elliot (Destroyer # 146, later DD-146, DMS-4 & AG-104) -- Part II.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


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


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