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Photo # NH 102963:  USS Fiske underway, 15 November 1964

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USS Fiske (DD-842, later DDR-842 and DD-842), 1945-1980 -- Part II


This page features post-FRAM modernization views of USS Fiske (DD-842), as well as miscellaneous images concerning her.

For earlier photographs of this ship, see:

  • USS Fiske (DD-842, later DDR-842 and DD-842), 1945-1980.


    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 102963

    USS Fiske
    (DD-842)

    Underway on 15 November 1964.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1151464

    USS Fiske
    (DD-842)

    Underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 27 March 1970.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1151464.

     
    Photo #: NH 102964

    USS Fiske
    (DD-842)

    Underway in the Narragansett Bay Operating Area, Atlantic Ocean, on 18 October 1971.
    Taken by Photographer's Mate First Class George S. Zebrowski, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102965

    USS Fiske
    (DD-842)

    Underway off Newport, Rhode Island, 24 October 1971.
    Taken by Chief Photographer's Mate Frederick W. Gotauco, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102957

    USS Fiske
    (DD-842)

    Ship's starboard propeller, taken while she was drydocked at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, 19 March 1946.
    View looks inboard, with Fiske's twin rudders at left.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102958

    USS Fiske
    (DD-842)

    Ship's propellers and twin rudders, taken while she was drydocked at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, 19 March 1946.
    View looks aft from below the starboard propeller shaft.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97062

    Destroyer Squadron Eight Change of Command, 1951


    "Recently returned from Korea, Commander Destroyer Squadron Eight, Captain E.S. Von Kleeck, Jr., reads his farewell address on board the USS J. P. Kennedy, Jr., as officers and men of Destroyer Division 81 stand-by to receive their new commander." Captain Von Kleeck was relieved by Captain J.J. Laffan.
    Probably taken at Newport, Rhode Island, soon after 8 August 1951, when DesDiv 81 returned from a Korean War deployment.
    Ships present are (from right to left):
    USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850);
    USS William R. Rush (DD-714);
    USS Fiske (DD-842);
    USS Hawkins (DDR-873);
    and an unidentified escort destroyer (DDE).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 143KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Note:
    This photograph is slightly disfigured by a ripped emulsion in the lower center left.

     
    Photo #: NH 65711-KN (color)

    USS Fiske (DD-842)

    Artwork of the ship's insignia adopted in 1965.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 630 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 68406-KN (Color)

    Insignia: USS Fiske (DD-842)

    Cloth jacket patch featuring the ship's emblem, as used in 1968.

    Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 218KB; 575 x 765 pixels

     


    In addition to the FRAM era images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other contemporary views of USS Fiske (DD-842). The following list features some of these images:

    The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: USN 1108368
    USS Fiske (DD-842) underway on 15 November 1964, after her FRAM I conversion.
    Starboard bow (rather tight on the bow) low aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1108369
    As USN 1108368, but port quarter low aerial view, rather toward the broadside.


  • Photo #: Navy K-91345 (color)
    USS Fiske (DD-842) underway in Narragansett Bay operating area, off Rhode Island, 18 October 1971. Photographed by PH1 George S. Zebrowski.
    High aerial view, taken from directly astern and slightly to starboard. This image is framed vertically.

  • Photo #: Navy K-91346 (color)
    As Navy K-91345, but starboard broadside aerial view.

  • Photo #: Navy K-91347 (color)
    As Navy K-91345, but port bow aerial view, relatively distant (the ship occupies only the right half of the image).


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For earlier photographs of this ship, see:

  • USS Fiske (DD-842, later DDR-842 and DD-842), 1945-1980.


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


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