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Photo # NH 45725:  USS Moody in harbor, circa 1920-1922

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USS Moody (Destroyer # 277, later DD-277), 1919-1931

USS Moody, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at Squantum, Massachusetts, was commissioned in December 1919. She steamed to the Pacific in early 1920 and operated from Southern California to Alaska until decommissioned at San Diego in June 1922. When the Navy implemented its hull number system in July 1920, Moody was designated DD-277. Returned to active service in September 1923, the destroyer was assigned to the Battle Fleet for the rest of the decade. Though primarily serving in West Coast waters, she deployed to Hawaii in 1925 and 1928, visited Australia and New Zealand during the Battle Fleet's mid-1925 trans-Pacific cruise, and operated in the Caribbean and off the East Coast in 1927. USS Moody was placed out of commission in June 1930 and stricken from the list of Naval vessels in November of that year. She was partially scrapped in 1931, and her hull was sunk off the California coast in February 1933.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Moody (Destroyer # 277, later DD-277).


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Photo #: NH 98927

USS Moody
(Destroyer # 277)

At Boston, Massachusetts, 8 October 1919.
Panoramic photograph by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston, Mass.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Crosby Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 45725

USS Moody
(DD-277)

In harbor, circa 1920-1922.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 69426

USS Moody
(DD-277)

Laying down a smokescreen, circa the early 1920s.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 480 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 81277

USS Moody
(DD-277)

Photographed in 1927, while lowering a boat from her after davits.

Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave J. Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 345 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 45726

USS Moody
(DD-277)

Underway during the later 1920s, with crewmen manning the rail forward.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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USS Moody is seen distantly or in the background of the following photographs:

Photo #: NH 43119

Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington


USS Mahopac (AT-29), in center, and five destroyers in Dry Dock Number Two, 8-22 September 1921.
The destroyers include Doyen (DD-280), Henshaw (DD-278), McCawley (DD-276), Meyer (DD-279) and Moody (DD-277).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 44542

Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington


Destroyers in Dry Dock Number Two, receiving modified after deckhouses to carry the after 4"/50 guns further from the waterline, September 1922.
The destroyers are, from left to right: Moody (DD-277), Henshaw (DD-278), and Meyer (DD-279).
Note the 3"/23 anti-aircraft guns mounted on the ships' sterns.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 167KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42539

"Red Lead Row", San Diego Destroyer Base, California


Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Many of the ships present are identified in Photo # NH 42539 (complete caption).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 159KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 63418

USS S-45 (SS-156)


Departing Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April 1927, en route to the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, for overhaul.
USS Moody (DD-277) is anchored in the right background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 43153

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Head end of the building slips, photographed by Monks & Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts, between 27 April and 3 May 1919.
The destroyers under construction are, from left to right: Moody (Destroyer # 277), Henshaw (Destroyer # 278), Meyer (Destroyer # 279) and Doyen (Destroyer # 280). The ships' builders numbers (357, 358, 359 and 360) are shown on the scaffolding in front of each.
Note the unplated hull of Doyen, at right, and the coal bin in the lower left.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 43154

Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts


Interior of the building slips, photographed by Monks & Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts, between 27 April and 3 May 1919.
The destroyers under construction in the foreground are, from the foreground: Meyer (Destroyer # 279, builder's # 359), Henshaw (Destroyer # 278, builder's # 358) and Moody (Destroyer # 277, builder's # 357). Beyond these three ships are at least three more, possibly McCawley (Destroyer # 276), Sinclair (Destroyer # 275) and Meade (Destroyer # 274). The unplated deck of Doyen (Destroyer # 280) is in the extreme right foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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


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