USS Fiske, a 2425-ton Gearing class destroyer, was built at Bath, Maine. Commissioned in late November 1945, she spent the rest of that decade on school ship duty and as a operational unit of the Atlantic Fleet, making three deployments to the Mediterranean. Early in 1951 Fiske transited the Panama Canal and steamed across the Pacific Ocean to take part in Korean War combat operations. After five months of bombardment and escort duty, she returned to the U.S. East Coast along a westerly route that completed her first voyage around the World.
Between April and November 1952 Fiske underwent conversion to a radar picket destroyer, receiving the new designation DDR-842 in the process. The following year she operated in the Arctic and in 1954 returned to the Mediterranean Sea for her fourth Sixth Fleet tour. Others followed in 1957, 1958, 1950-1960, 1961, and 1962. She also made another Arctic cruise 1957 and visited northern Europe in 1960. Between overseas voyages, she served in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, with Cuban Missile Crisis duty with a carrier striking force in the Autumn of 1962.
Fiske underwent a second major conversion during February-November 1964. Emerging from the New York Naval Shipyard in her new FRAM I configuration, she was now a modern anti-submarine warfare ship and was again designated DD-842. Following a year of service in the U.S. and Caribbean, which included patrol work off Santo Domingo during a governmental crisis in the Dominican Republic, the destroyer began the second of her cruises around the World. This one took her to the waters off Vietnam, where she performed search and rescue, carrier escort and shore bombardment duties in March-June 1966. In 1967 Fiske steamed back to the Mediterranean, voyaging to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf during this deployment, which included a trip around Africa. Another Sixth Fleet tour took place in 1968-1969, and in mid-1970 she again operated in Northern European waters.
In 1973, though now approaching the end of her third decade, Fiske returned to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, steaming there by way of the South Atlantic. Though transferred to the Naval Reserve Force later in that year, she was again sent to the Mediterranean in 1974. USS Fiske was placed out of commission in June 1980 and leased to Turkey. Renamed Piyale Pasa, she was an active unit of that nation's navy until the end of the Twentieth Century.
USS Fiske was named in honor of Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske (1854-1942).
This page features all the pre-FRAM modernization photographs we have of USS Fiske (DD-842, later DDR-842 and DD-842), and provides links to later and miscellaneous views concerning her.
For post-FRAM modernization views and other images related
to this ship, see:
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 102953 USS Fiske (DD-842) Off Boston, Massachusetts, 8 January 1946. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102954 USS Fiske (DD-842) Off Boston, Massachusetts, 8 January 1946. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102955 USS Fiske (DD-842) Underway off Boston, Massachusetts, 8 January 1946. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102956 USS Fiske (DD-842) Underway off the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, 8 January 1946. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102959 USS Fiske (DDR-842) Photographed in January 1953, following conversion to a radar picket destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102960 USS Fiske (DDR-842) Photographed in January 1953, following conversion to a radar picket destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102961 USS Fiske (DDR-842) Photographed in January 1953, following conversion to a radar picket destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-625699 USS Fiske (DDR-842) Operating off Newport, Rhode Island, 10 July 1953. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 66802 USS Fiske (DDR-842) At Newport, Rhode Island, 7 November 1953. Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 102962 USS Fiske (DDR-842) Entering Monte Carlo harbor, Monaco, in 1957. Note crewmen in "Whites" at sea & anchor detail, and at quarters for entering port. Courtesy of Robert C. Mabe, Historian of the USS Fiske Association. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 555 pixels |
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other pre-FRAM views of USS Fiske (DD-842, later DDR-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".
USS Fiske (DD-842) underway off Kittery Point, New Hampshire, 28 November 1945. Starboard bow aerial view, with the ship making good speed on what appears to have been a cloudy day. As 80-G-354661, but high aerial view taken from ahead and slightly to starboard of the ship's bow.
USS Fiske (DDR-842) underway at sea, 2 May 1958. Photographed by USS Essex (CVA-9). Port broadside surface view, somewhat toward the bow, taken from about the height of the ship's main gun director radar antenna. A modernized Essex class aircraft carrier is in the background. USS Fiske (DDR-842) underway in the Mediterranean Sea while serving with the Sixth Fleet, 1 January 1960. Photographed by Rutledge, of USS Saratoga (CVA-60). Starboard bow high aerial view, taken from a moderate distance. Fiske occupies about a quarter of the image's width. USS Fiske (DDR-842) underway, December 1960. Photographed by Cook. Port bow surface view, taken from about the height of the ship's foremast radar antenna platform.
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 post-FRAM modernization views and other images related
to this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 31 August 2005