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Photo # NH 76128:  USS Hull making smoke, during the 1920s

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Hull (DD-330), 1921-1931

USS Hull, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built at San Francisco, California. She was commissioned in April 1921 and began nearly a decade of operations that primarily took place along the West Coast from Panama to Alaska. In 1924 and 1927, she transited the Panama Canal to participate in U.S. Fleet exercises in the Caribbean. The 1927 cruise took her up the East Coast to New York before she returned to the Pacific. Hull was decommissioned at the end of March 1930, during a general restructuring of the Fleet's destroyer force. She was scrapped in 1931.

USS Hull was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull (1773-1843), a signficant Naval commander during and after the War of 1812.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Hull (DD-330), 1921-1931.


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Photo #: NH 76128

USS Hull (DD-330)


Making smoke, during the 1920s.

Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 74318

USS Hull (DD-330)


Underway, during the 1920s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 77258

USS Cuyama (AO-3)


With twelve destroyers tied up alongside, during the early 1920s. The ships present include (from left to right):
USS Jacob Jones (DD-130);
USS Hull (DD-330);
USS Thompson (DD-305);
USS Corry (DD-334);
USS Kennedy (DD-306);
USS Reno (DD-303);
USS Cuyama (AO-3;
USS Stoddert (DD-302);
USS Yarborough (DD-314);
USS Sloat (DD-316);
USS Litchfield (DD-336);
USS Shubrick (DD-268);
USS Young (DD-312);

Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, 1973. From the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 90447

United States Fleet


Off Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, during the mid-1920s.
Destroyers present include:
USS Farquhar (DD-304), at left;
USS Reno (DD-303), center;
USS William Jones (DD-308), right center;
and USS Hull (DD-330).
Photographed by the Shura Studio, Honolulu.

Courtesy of Charles Sass, 1979.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 70684

Mare Island Navy Yard, California


Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): USS Farenholt (DD-332), USS Sumner (DD-333) and USS Hull (DD-330).
The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740 feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over the sill.

Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 148KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98274

USS Hull (DD-330)


Launching, at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Union Plant, Potrero Works, San Francisco, California, 18 February 1921.
A portrait of her Sponsor, Miss Elizabeth Hull, is inset into the image.

Collection of Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Hull (DD-330). The following list features this image:

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



  • Photo #: 80-G-460034
    USS Hull (DD-330) steaming abreast USS California (BB-44), 1927.
    Starboard bow surface view, taken from about the height of Hull's foremast crows nest and California's conning tower top. Hull is on the left in this view, filling about a quarter of the photograph's width. California, on the right and more distant, occupies about 40% of the image's width.


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

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


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


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