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Photo # NH 50126:  USS Monaghan at anchor, circa 1912

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USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32, later DD-32), 1911-1934. Renamed DD-32, 1933.
Served as USCGC Monaghan (CG-15) in 1924-1931

USS Monaghan, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Placed in commission in June 1911, she served with the Atlantic Fleet during the next half decade. Following the United States' April 1917 entry into World War I, the destroyer was employed on patrol and escort duties off the East Coast and in the European war zone. Monaghan was decommissioned in early November 1919, after briefly operating with the Atlantic Fleet in the first months of the post-war era.

In June 1924 Monaghan was brought out of reserve and transferred to the Treasury Department. Retaining her Navy name when commissioned for U.S. Coast Guard service at the end of June 1925, she was stationed at New London, Connecticut, and later at Boston, Massachusetts. She played an active role in enforcing Prohibition laws against the always resourceful and aggressive "rum-runners" until decommissioned in late January 1931. Monaghan was returned to the Navy in May of that year and again laid up. At the beginning of July 1933 she was renamed DD-32, releasing her original name for use on a new destroyer (DD-354). Just over a year later, in August 1934, she was sold for scrapping.

USS Monaghan was named in honor of Ensign John R. Monaghan (1873-1899), who was killed in action at Samoa on 1 April 1899.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32, later DD-32).

For other images that are probably related to USS Monaghan, by way of her sister ship, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34), see:

  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914; and
  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914 (Part II).


    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 50126

    USS Monaghan
    (Destroyer # 32)

    At anchor, circa 1912.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95195

    USS Monaghan
    (Destroyer # 32)

    Photographed prior to World War I by Waterman.

    Courtesy of Jack L. Howland, 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99855

    Destroyers at Dry Tortugas coaling station, Florida, 15 March 1914


    Members of the Second Division, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, these ships are (from left to right):
    USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32);
    USS Sterett (Destroyer # 27);
    and (perhaps) USS Terry (Destroyer # 25).
    This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) crewmember, which was another member of the division.

    Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94774-KN (Color)

    "Uncle Sam's Ships"

    Cover for sheet music composed and written by Chief Yeoman Daisy May Pratt Erd, USNRF, during World War I. It features the names of 109 U.S. Navy ships, from battleships to tugs and patrol boats.

    Donation of Miss G.H. Erd, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 136KB; 585 x 765 pixels

     


    USS Monaghan is seen in the background in the following photographs of other subjects.

    Photo #: NH 2244

    Martin Model S tractor seaplane


    Being tended by Sailors in waders, circa 1916.
    Two Second Division destroyers are in the background. USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32) is the one at right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 65071

    Scoter
    (American Motor Boat, 1916)

    Passing USS L-1 (Submarine # 40) while underway, probably in 1916.
    USS L-3 (Submarine # 42) and USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32) are in the background.
    This pleasure craft, built by George Lawley & Son of Neponset, Massachusetts, became USS Scoter (SP-20) in 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     


    The following photograph , taken while Monaghan was in U.S. Coast Guard service during the 1920s, shows her partially, in the image's left background.

    Photo #: NH 69025

    U.S. Coast Guard destroyers at the New York Navy Yard,
    20 October 1926

    These former U.S. Navy destroyers were transferred to the Coast Guard to help fight the illegal rum-running traffic along the East Coast. They are (from left to right):
    USCGC Monaghan (CG-15, ex USN DD-32);
    Unidentified;
    USCGC Roe (CG-18, ex USN DD-24);
    USCGC McDougal (CG-6, ex USN DD-54); and
    USCGC Ammen (CG-8, ex USN DD-35).

    Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For other images that are probably related to USS Monaghan, by way of her sister ship, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34), see:

  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914; and
  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla Ships and Activities, circa 1914 (Part II).


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


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