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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Osborne (Destroyer # 295, later DD-295), 1920-1931
USS Osborne, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer
built at Squantum, Massachusetts, was commissioned in May 1920.
A few months later, when the Navy formally implemented its hull
number system, she was designated DD-295. During the next decade
Osborne was primarily engaged in fleet operations in the
U.S. East Coast and Caribbean areas, but in 1925-1926 she made
a year-long deployment to western Europe and the Mediterranean
Sea. Inactive after September 1929, the ship was decommissioned
at the beginning of May 1930. USS Osborne was stricken
from the list of Naval vessels in October 1930 and sold for scrapping
in January 1931.
USS Osborne was named in honor of Lieutenant (Junior
Grade) Weedon E.
Osborne, USN (Dental Corps) (1892-1918), who was posthumously
awarded the Medal of Honor
for "extraordinary heroism" during the Battle of Belleau
Wood, 6 June 1918.
This page features, and provides links to, all the views
we have concerning USS Osborne (Destroyer # 295, later
DD-295).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 42921
USS Osborne (DD-295)
Underway in the Hudson River, off New York City, during the 1920s.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42921-A-KN (color)
USS Osborne (DD-295)
Underway in the Hudson River, off New York City, during the 1920s.
The original print was autographed by Admiral Raymond A. Spruance,
USN, circa the 1960s. He was Osborne's Commanding Officer
in 1925-1926.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57976
USS Osborne (DD-295)
Underway during the review of the U.S. Fleet by President Calvin
Coolidge, 4 June 1927.
USS Goff (DD-247) is in the right background.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 83930
USS Osborne (DD-295),
USS Gwin (DD-71),
and
USS DuPont (DD-152)
Moored to a buoy in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, circa
1920.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Vice
Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 99998
USS Osborne (Destroyer # 295)
Ship's Sponsors, Mrs. Harry Hutchins Fisher (Elizabeth Osborne)
and Mrs. Channing C. Cox, in center front holding flowers, with
their party at christening ceremonies held at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corporation shipyard, Squantum, Massachusetts, on 29 December
1919.
Mrs. Fisher was sister of Lieutenant Weedon E. Osborne, USN (Dental
Corps), in whose honor the ship was named.
Collection of The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 535 pixels |
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