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Photo # NH 93815:  USS Flusser running builder's trials, 1909

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USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20, DD-20), 1909-1920

USS Flusser, a 700-ton Smith class destroyer, was built at Bath, Maine. Commissioned in October 1909, she served in the Atlantic and Caribbean areas during her entire career. Until World War I, Flusser was assigned to the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet and participated in its normal cruises and exercises. In 1916, she took part in neutrality patrols off the U.S. east coast. Flusser was transferred to European waters in mid-1917 and spent the rest of the First World War there. Returning to the U.S. in December 1918, she decommissioned in July 1919. In July 1920 Flusser received the hull number DD-20, but she had no further active service and was sold the following November.

USS Flusser was named in honor of Charles Williamson Flusser (1832-1864), who was killed in action during the Civil War.

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Photo #: NH 63257-A

USS Flusser (DD-20)


Making 26.04 kt. on Run 12-North, while on builder's trials shortly before she commissioned, circa September-October 1909. She was constructed by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93815

USS Flusser (DD-20)


Running builder's trials, shortly before she was commissioned in October 1909. She was constructed by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston.

Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 63258

USS Flusser (DD-20)


Running builder's trials shortly before she commissioned, circa September-October 1909. She was constructed by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93696

USS Flusser (DD-20)


Photographed circa 1910-11, while serving as a unit of the Seventh Division, Atlantic Torpedo Fleet. She is dressed with flags for some special occasion.
Note that her funnels are much taller than when she was first completed. The numeral "7" is attached to her # 2 funnel.

Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 98018

USS Flusser
(Destroyer # 20)

Underway, circa the early 1910s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 54955

Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


Older destroyers in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, preparing to go out of commission, 5 March 1919.
They are, from left to right:
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18);
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20);
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10); and
USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5).
Other ships are in the background.
Note depth charge racks, after steering wheels and twin 18-inch torpedo tubes on Lamson and Flusser.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 43037

Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


Destroyers in the Reserve Basin awaiting decommissioning, circa March-April 1919. Ships present include (from left to right):
USS Preble (Destroyer # 12);
USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5);
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10);
unidentified "750-ton" destroyer;
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20); and
unidentified "750-ton" destroyer.
Note the bent bow on the third ship from right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93816

USS Flusser (DD-20)


View in the engine room, probably looking forward, showing control handwheels, gages, steam lines, and builder's plaque for her Parsons turbines. Also note electric lights, ladder and lightened structural members.
Photographed while Flusser was under construction at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1909.

Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93817

USS Flusser (DD-20)


View in the engine room, probably looking aft, showing Parsons turbines and associated fittings. Note ladder, lightened structural members, railings and "non-skid" treads on the working platform.
Photographed while Flusser was under construction at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1909.

Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 98011

USS Flusser
(Destroyer # 20)

Ship's officers and crew, photographed prior to the First World War by Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 79484

USS Flusser (DD-20)


Halftoned photograph of one of her 18" torpedo tubes, circa 1916.

Copied from the book United States Navy Illustrated, published in New York, 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 91480

USS Flusser (DD-20)


Launching, 20 July 1909, at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Retired), 1980.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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