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Photo # NH 61889:  USS Hopewell at anchor, 15 November 1919

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USS Hopewell (Destroyer # 181, later DD-181), 1919-1940

USS Hopewell, a 1090-ton Lamberton class destroyer, was built at Newport News, Virginia, under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program. She was commissioned in mid-March 1919, about five months after the conflict's end, and in May helped support the trans-Atlantic flight of the seaplane NC-4. Thereafter Hopewell operated in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas, with her duties including training Naval reservists during 1920 and 1921. Generally inactive after October 1921, she was formally decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in July 1922 and remained laid up there for nearly eighteen years.

The great European war that began in September 1939 caused a strengthening of U.S. defense efforts, and Hopewell was returned to commissioned service in mid-June 1940. She spent the summer of that year on neutrality patrols off New England. In September the destroyer was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, decommissioned and transferred to Great Britain as part of the "Destroyers for Bases" agreement. Renamed HMS Bath, she served in the Royal Navy until April 1941, when she became part of the Royal Norwegian Navy. As KNM Bath she began operation as part of the "Liverpool Escort Force" early in June, but had a very brief subsequent career, being sunk by a German submarine on 19 August 1941, while escorting a convoy bound for Gibraltar.

This page features the only views we have concerning USS Hopewell (Destroyer # 181, later DD-181).


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Photo #: NH 61889

USS Hopewell
(Destroyer # 181)

At anchor, 15 November 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 78133

USS Hopewell
(Destroyer # 181)

Photographed circa 1919-1920.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 76074

USS Hopewell
(Destroyer # 181)

Anchored in a harbor, circa 1919-1920, with other destroyers. USS Bagley (Destroyer # 185) is at left.

Courtesy of Leonard R. Efrein, 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 95792

Trans-Atlantic Flight of the "NC" Aircraft, May 1919


Diagram of the third leg of the flight of the NC-1, NC-3 and NC-4 aircraft, between Trepassy Bay, Newfoundland, and the Azores, during 16 May to 20 May 1919. It also shows the positions of the 21 U.S. Navy destroyers stationed along the way.
Printed by the Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, New York.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 109KB; 900 x 605 pixels

 


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