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Photo # NH 102902:  USS Laub at the Boston Navy Yard, 4 June 1919

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Laub (Destroyer # 263, later DD-263), 1919-1940

USS Laub, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at Squantum, Massachusetts, was commissioned in mid-March 1919. In May of that year she supported the trans-Atlantic flight attempt made by the Navy's NC flying boats, and in July-September 1919 operated in the eastern Atlantic off France and in the Mediterranean Sea. Laub steamed to the Pacific in October and November 1919, serving along the West Coast from then until she was decommissioned in June 1922. She was given the designation DD-263 in mid-1920.

Laub was laid up for the rest of the 1920s and all but two weeks of the 1930s. Recommissioned in December 1939, as part of the Nation's response to the outbreak of World War II in Europe, she served in the Caribbean area and off the East Coast from April through August 1940. Early in September Laub was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was decommissioned in October 1940 and turned over to the British Royal Navy. As HMS Burwell, she was subsequently employed on convoy escort and patrol service in the North Atlantic. The old destroyer was scrapped in the United Kingdom in 1947.

This page features all the views we have concerning Laub (Destroyer # 263, later DD-263).


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

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Photo #: NH 102902

USS Laub
(Destroyer # 263)

At the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 4 June 1919.
Panoramic photograph by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston, Mass.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 1200 x 430 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 60641

USS Laub
(Destroyer # 263)

Receiving mail at sea, 16 September 1919.
A motor launch is off Laub's stern.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 40KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 63453

USS Troy
(ID # 1614)

"Bringing home 5000 troops", 1919.
At right is USS Laub (Destroyer # 263), which was commissioned in March 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 93975

U.S. Navy destroyers at San Diego, California


Photographed circa 1919 or 1920 by the Bunnell Photo Shop and printed on "AZO" postal card stock. Ships present are (seen from astern, left to right): USS Laub (Destroyer # 263), unidentified, USS Edwards (Destroyer # 265), USS Ballard (Destroyer # 267), USS Shubrick (Destroyer # 268) and USS McLanahan (Destroyer # 264).
The original card, which has neither stamp nor postmark, is inscribed: "This is the way they anchor Destroyers, in the harbor. They have what they call 'mother ship' or supply ship and 6 or 8 destroyers all tied close together".

Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 


In addition to the views referenced above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other photograph of USS Laub (DD-263). The following listing describes this image:

The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: 80-G-424619
    USS Laub (DD-263) at rest or underway at very low speed, probably circa 1940.
    Port bow high aerial view. The ship has awning frames erected over her foredeck and an awning rigged amidships.


    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The image listed above is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


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


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