This page features all the views we have concerning USS Isabel (SP-521) during the World War I era.
For selected views related to this ship throughout her career,
and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects
of her service, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
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Photo #: NH 544 USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 31 December 1917, following conversion to a warship. Note her Mackay type camouflage scheme, and torpedo tubes installed amidships. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 480 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 99739 USS Isabel (SP-521) At sea on 29 June 1918, photographed from USS Fairmont (ID # 2429) by crewmember Grant S. Ray. This "destroyer" (note torpedo tubes amidships), converted from a fast yacht, had received wartime credit for destroying at least one German submarine, though the U-Boat appears to have actually escaped. Isabel was built for Toledo, Ohio, automobile manufacturer John North Willys, not for a member of the Vanderbilt family. Collection of Grant S. Ray. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-1017190 USS Isabel (SP-521) At Key West, Florida, 17 May 1919, prior to her Mississippi River recruiting trip. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 53275 USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10) Making smoke while underway, circa 1919. Note the torpedo tubes installed amidships on this "destroyer" converted from a fast yacht. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43907 Seaplane NC-4 Photographed from USS Isabel (SP-521), upon its arrival at Washington, D.C., while on a recruiting tour, 17 October 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 545 USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10) View on the forecastle, showing the ship's starboard forward 3"/50 gun. Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1917. Note the Mackay type camouflage scheme applied to the gun's shield and to the ship's superstructure. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41985 USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10) Left side of the ship's starboard forward 3"/50 gun. Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1917. Pattern painted on the gun and bulwark is part of the Mackay type camouflage scheme applied to this ship. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41984 USS Isabel (SP-521, later PY-10) Ship's starboard forward 3"/50 gun, showing the gun's breech and the interior of its shield. Photographed at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1917. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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USS Isabel is seen distantly or in the background of the following photographs:
Photo #: NH 102576 USS Yacona (SP-617) At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, circa December 1917, painted in pattern camouflage. Built in 1898 and previously named Cem and Amelia, the steam yacht Yacona was acquired by the Navy on 29 September 1917 and commissioned on 10 December 1917. She was transferred to the Government of the Philippines on 27 July 1921. Yacht Isabel, then being prepared for service as USS Isabel (SP-521), is on the other side of the pier from Yacona. Steamers in the background are Aroostook (ID # 1256, formerly S.S. Bunker Hill) and Massachusetts, which became USS Shawmut (ID # 1255). The original photograph is in Record Group 19-LCM in the National Archives. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 424 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52104 Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania Destroyers and other ships at the Yard in March 1919, awaiting decommissioning. Identifiable ships include: USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), at far left; USS Isabel (later PY-10), left center; USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8), foreground; and USS Perry (Destroyer # 11), inboard of Lawrence. Note Lawrence's after torpedo tube and pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 525 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43036 Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania Destroyers awaiting decommissioning in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, during the Spring of 1919. Photographed by La Tour. Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 43036 (complete caption). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 500 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 68764 Key West Naval Station, Florida Photographed in 1919, with camouflage patterns on some buildings. Ships at piers are USS Castine (Gunboat # 6), at left, and USS Isabel (SP-521) at right. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 570 pixels |
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For selected views related to this ship throughout her career,
and links to comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects
of her service, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 29 November 2004