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Photo # NH 73279: USS Isabel in Asiatic waters, about 1928

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Isabel (PY-10) --
Views of the Ship taken during the 1920s


This page features all the non-distant views we have of USS Isabel (PY-10) during the 1920s.

For selected views related to this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10), 1917-1946.


    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 73280

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    In Asiatic waters on 29 July 1928, while serving as flagship of the Yangtze River Patrol.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73279

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    In Asiatic waters, about 1928.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67756

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10), at left, and
    USS Preble (DD-345), at right

    At Hankow, China, circa the early 1920s.
    Destroyers beyond Preble are USS Pruitt (DD-347) and USS Sicard (DD-346).

    Received from the U.S. Naval Library, Treasure Island Naval Station, California, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77138

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    Photographed in Chinese waters, during the early 1920s.

    Courtesy of Frederick Cornman, 1971.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 91410

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    At Hankow, China, 1923.
    The original print was marked by the donor to note the location of the ship's radio room and her radio call letters.

    Collection of Henry J. Poy, who served in Isabel as a Radioman First Class in 1923.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 315 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67128

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    Dressed with flags in Chinese waters, circa the 1920s, while serving as flagship of the Yangtse River Patrol.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 83192-KN (color)

    USS Isabel (PY-10)

    Delicately water color tinted photograph of the ship in Chinese waters, circa the 1920s.

    Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 81171

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    At Hankow, China, in 1927.
    She is flying the two-star flag of Commander, Yangtze Patrol and has sandbags placed around her gun mounts.

    Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67580

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10)

    At anchor, circa the 1920s. She is flying the four-star flag of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Asiatic Fleet.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 32KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67127

    Hangchow, China


    Some of the ships of the U.S. Navy's Yangtse River Patrol at Hangchow during the 1920s, with several local junks and sampans also present.
    U.S. Navy ships are (from left to right):
    USS Isabel (PY-10);
    USS Villalobos (PG-42); and
    USS Elcano (PG-38).

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 420 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80990

    U.S. Warships at Hankow, China, at low river level, 1925


    Ships are USS Truxtun (DD-229) at left; USS Isabel (PY-10) in center, and USS Palos (PG-16) in the right foreground.
    Also present are several junks, and a British Cornflower class sloop (partially visible at far right).

    Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77125

    USS Isabel
    (PY-10), at right

    Anchored in Chinese waters, probably at Hankow, during the early 1920s.

    Courtesy of Frederick Cornman, 1971.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     

    For selected views related to this ship throughout her career, and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of her service, see:

  • USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10), 1917-1946.


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


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