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Photo # NH 66725:  USS McKee underway, probably during builder's trials in the San Francisco Bay area, circa summer 1918

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USS McKee (Destroyer # 87, later DD-87), 1918-1936

USS McKee, a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little class destroyer, was built at San Francisco, California. Commissioned in September 1918, she arrived on the U.S. East Coast early in the following month and was employed as a convoy escort during the remaining weeks of World War I, making one voyage to the Azores. During 1919-1922 McKee was based on the Atlantic Coast, taking part in operations as far north as Halifax, Nova Scotia, and southward into the Caribbean. She was decommissioned in June 1922 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. USS McKee was stricken from the list of Navy ships in January 1936 and sold for scrapping later in that year.

USS McKee was named in honor of Lieutenant Hugh W. McKee, who was killed in action in Korea in June 1871.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS McKee (Destroyer # 87, later DD-87).


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Photo #: NH 66725

USS McKee
(Destroyer # 87)

Underway, probably during builder's trials in the San Francisco Bay area, circa summer 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 560 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 66726

USS McKee
(Destroyer # 87)

Painted in pattern camouflage, circa the late summer or fall of 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103770

USS McKee
(Destroyer # 87)

Underway, probably in U.S. East Coast waters, circa Autumn 1918.
The number "87" is painted on her superstructure side below the pilot house, just above the main deck edge.
McKee's pattern camouflage scheme, as seen here, differs from that visible in Photo # NH 66726.

Collection of Arthur J. Rozette.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82974

USS McKee
(Destroyer # 87)
and
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88)

Outboard in a nest of four destroyers, in port in 1919.
Photographed from USS Pocahontas (ID # 3044).

Collection of the USS Pocahontas Reunion Association, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS McKee (Destroyer # 87, later DD-87). The following list features 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-651932
    USS McKee (Destroyer # 87) underway, 30 April 1919.
    Starboard bow (rather toward the broadside) view. The number "87" is partially visible on McKee's bow, and smoke is streaming from her after smokestack.


    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 in this box 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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