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Photo # NH 57976:  USS Osborne during the Presidential fleet review, 4 June 1927

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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).


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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.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
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

 
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.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
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

 
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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