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Photo # NH 46202:  USS Melville crewmen during her voyage from the U.S. to Ireland, May 1917

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USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2, later AD-2) --
On Board Views


This page features views taken on board USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2, later AD-2).

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2, later AD-2), 1915-1948.


    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 104453

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    View on board, looking aft from the ship's foremast, circa 1916 or early 1917.
    The original photograph is printed on postcard stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46202

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Crewmen in foul weather gear and life jackets during her voyage to Queenstown, Ireland, from the U.S., May 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46395

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2), at left

    With USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63) alongside, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
    Note men painting the searchlight above Sampson's pilothouse.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46398

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2), at left

    With a destroyer alongside, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1917-1918.
    The destroyer is one of the group numbered from 43 to 62, mounting twin torpedo tubes.
    Note the five-inch gun on Melville's deck, in the lower left, and life rafts nested atop the destroyer's after deckhouse, in the lower right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 151KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46203

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Scene in the ship's Optical Department, while she was stationed at Queenstown, Ireland, during World War I.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46201

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Crewmen washing clothes in buckets, while she was stationed at Queenstown, Ireland, as "mother ship" for U.S. destroyers based there during World War I.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52984

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee with officers of the U.S. and British Navies, during a visit by the Congressmen to Melville, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
    Among those present are:
    Captain Joel R.P. Pringle, USN, ship's commanding officer (seated in center);
    Representative Lemuel R. Padgett, Committee Chairman (seated third from right); and
    Representative Thomas S. Butler, (seated second from right).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52986

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee inspect the ship's crew, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
    Leading the group are Representative Lemuel R. Padgett, Committee Chairman, and Captain Joel R.P. Pringle, USN, ship's commanding officer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52987

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee touring the ship, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
    Leading the group are Representative Lemuel R. Padgett, Committee Chairman, and Captain Joel R.P. Pringle, USN, ship's commanding officer.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52985

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2)

    Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee leaving the ship after a visit, circa 1918.
    Melville was tender for U.S. destroyers based at Queenstown, Ireland.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85

    German Mines


    On board USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2) at Queenstown, Ireland, during World War I. These had been recovered by divers from the German submarine UC-44, which had been destroyed by the detonation of her own mines at Waterford, Ireland, in 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     


    The following photograph was possibly taken on board USS Melville:

    Photo #: NH 104455

    Landing Force Drill


    On board a U.S. Navy ship, circa 1916 or early 1917.
    These Sailors are carrying Krag-Jorgensen rifles.
    Possibly taken on board USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2).
    A destroyer is alongside, in the immediate background, and another is in the distance.
    The original photograph is printed on postcard stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     


    For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2, later AD-2), 1915-1948.

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


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    Page made 20 November 2003
    New images added 26 July 2007