USS Kimberly, a 1160-ton (displacement) Little class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in April 1918. She crossed the Atlantic to the British Isles a few months later and spent the rest of World War I on anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort duty in that area. Returning to the U.S. East Coast early in 1919, Kimberly conducted routine training and experimental operations during the next three years. She was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the end of June 1922 and remained laid up there until stricken from the list of Naval vessels in January 1937. She was sold for scrapping in April 1939.
USS Kimberly was named in honor of Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly (1830-1902), who commanded the Pacific Station during the later 1880s.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Kimberly (Destroyer # 80, later DD-80).
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Photo #: NH 51080 USS Kimberly (Destroyer # 80) Tied to a mooring buoy, during 1918. She is painted in pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42691 USS Kimberly (Destroyer # 80) Painting by Burnell Poole, 1926, depicting Kimberly escorting USS Leviathan (in left distance) in the Atlantic war zone, 1918. USS Davis (Destroyer # 65) is in the right distance. Photographed circa the 1930s. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 455 pixels Note: By the early 1970s this painting's condition had greatly deteriorated. See Photo # NH 42691-A-KN for its appearance at that time. |
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Photo #: NH 99743 USS Kimberly (Destroyer # 80) In drydock, circa 1919-1920, probably at Boston, Massachusetts. Collection of Christopher Henry William Lloyd, donated by his daughter, Virginia M. Agostini, 1990. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 530 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52063 USS Kimberly (Destroyer # 80) View looking aft from the bridge, while the ship was at sea in 1918. Her Commanding Officer, Commander Alfred W. Johnson, is walking on the main deck in the foreground. Note Kimberly's starboard midships 4"/50 gun, boats stowed on davits, life raft with oar and cask of provisions between the forward smokestacks, and pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 114KB; 590 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43022 Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts Ships fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, 19 March 1918. The six destroyers are Little (DD-79), Kimberly (DD-80), Sigourney (DD-81), Gregory (DD-82), Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's hull numbers 274-277 and 280-281 respectively. The freighter at right is Katrina Luckenbach, yard hull # 267, which served as USS Katrina Luckenbach in 1918-19. Most of the equipment on the pier is for her. Note the large submarine being built in the background, under the revolving crane. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 146KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Page made 19 November 2004