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Photo # NH 53566:  USS Hopkins, photographed circa 1904

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USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6), 1903-1920

USS Hopkins, name ship of a class of two 408-ton destroyers built at Wilmington, Delaware, was commissioned in September 1903. She spent the next four years operating along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean area on training and readiness assignments. Between December 1907 and May 1908 Hopkins accompanied the "Great White Fleet" on its long voyage around South America to California. Soon after arriving on the West Coast she was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for service in the waters from Mexico to Alaska.

In May 1917 Hopkins went to the Panama Canal Zone to begin World War I escort and patrol work off Central America. She steamed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, in August of that year and served for the rest of the war between the Atlantic Coast and Bermuda. No longer needed after the fighting ended, USS Hopkins was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in June 1919. She was stricken from the Navy List in October 1919 and sold for scrapping in September 1920.

USS Hopkins was named in honor of Commodore Esek Hopkins (1718-1802), the first Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy.

This page features, or provides links to, all the views we have related to Hopkins (Destroyer # 6), 1903-1920.

For other pictures related to this ship, see:

  • USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6) -- In Groups with Other Ships.


    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 53566

    USS Hopkins
    (Destroyer # 6)

    At anchor, circa 1904.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77117

    USS Hopkins
    (Destroyer # 6)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1906.
    Published at about that time by Chilton Printing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101488

    USS Hopkins
    (Destroyer # 6)

    Steams past Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, circa May-July 1908, during the "Great White Fleet"'s visit to the West Coast.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95191

    USS Hopkins
    (Destroyer # 6)

    Anchored at San Diego, California, prior to World War I.
    Photographed by the Arcade View Company, San Diego.

    Courtesy of Jack L. Howland, 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 65148

    USS Hopkins
    (Destroyer # 6)

    At San Francisco, California, shortly before the U.S. entered World War I.
    Note the ship's number painted on her bow.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1968.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98240

    USS Hopkins
    (Destroyer # 6)

    Damage to the ship's port side, forward, received in a collision with USS Vesuvius.
    The original print was on a postal card mailed in April 1907.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear Admiral C.M. Thomas.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 510 x 765 pixels

     

    For other pictures related to this ship, see:

  • USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6) -- In Groups with Other Ships.


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


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