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Photo # NH 91125:  USS Israel in European waters, 1919

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USS Israel (Destroyer # 98, later DM-3), 1918-1939

USS Israel, a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned mid-September 1918. She briefly performed escort duty along the Atlantic Coast, then accompanied a convoy to Gibraltar, where she arrived five days before the 11 November Armistice brought the fighting to an end. Israel operated in the Mediterranean Sea until July 1919, when she returned to the United States. In 1920 the destroyer was converted to a light minelayer, receiving the designation DM-3 in July 1920, though apparently continuing to wear her destroyer number, "98". During 1921 and the first months of 1922 Israel was active off the East Coast and in the Caribbean area. Decommissioned in July 1922, she was laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, for nearly a decade and a half. USS Israel was stricken from the list of Navy ships in January 1937 and sold in April 1939.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS Israel (Destroyer # 98, later DM-3).

For additional images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Israel (Destroyer # 98, later DM-3) -- On Board and Close Up Views.


    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 91125

    USS Israel
    (Destroyer # 98)

    In European waters, 1919.

    Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1980.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78129

    USS Israel
    (DM-3)

    Photographed circa 1920, just after she had been converted to a light minelayer.
    Though formally designated as DM-3 in July 1920, she is still wearing her destroyer number, "98".

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 41KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 72861

    U.S. Navy destroyers at Villefranche, France, 1919


    These ships are (from left to right): USS Israel (Destroyer # 98), USS Schley (Destroyer # 103) and USS Stribling (Destroyer # 96).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103189

    Light Minelayers
    (ex-destroyers)

    At the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa mid- 1921.
    Photographed by H.J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
    These ships, all still wearing their destroyer bow numbers with the mine force insignia painted on immediately behind, are (from left to right):
    USS Mahan (DM-7, formerly DD-102);
    USS Lansdale (DM-6, formerly DD-101);
    USS Maury (DM-5, formerly DD-100); and
    USS Israel (DM-3, formerly DD-98).
    The original print bears a hand-written note referring to a Commandant, Boston Navy Yard letter of 4 October 1921.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 900 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 43023

    Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts


    USS Israel (Destroyer # 98) and USS Maury (Destroyer # 100) on the building ways, 20 June 1918. They were the builder's hull #s 304 and 306. Two more destroyers are further to the left, with their construction less advanced.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 154KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102922

    Miss Dorothy Brown
    ,
    Sponsor of USS Israel (Destroyer # 98)

    Holding the Sponsor's bouquet, during the ship's launching ceremonies at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 22 June 1918.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     


    For additional images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Israel (Destroyer # 98, later DM-3) -- On Board and Close Up Views.


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


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