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Photo # NH 68091-KN:  Jacket patch of a 1960s USS Perkins insignia

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USS Perkins (DD-877, later DDR-877 and DD-877), 1945-1973 -- Part II


This page features additional views related to USS Perkins (DD-877, later DDR-877 and DD-877).

For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Perkins (DD-877, later DDR-877 and DD-877), 1945-1973.


    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 #: USN 1139357

    Seventh Fleet ships replenishing in the South China Sea, May 1969


    Photographed by PH1 Long. Ships present are (from front to back):
    USS Wiltsie (DD-716);
    USS Tappahannock (AO-43);
    USS Oriskany (CVA-34);
    USS Mars (AFS-1); and
    USS Perkins (DD-877);

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 595 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1139357.

     
    Photo #: NH 78845

    "sonar"
    "america's listening post"


    U.S. Naval Reserve recruiting poster, issued 12 November 1950.
    Artist: Binder.
    Ship featured in the poster is USS Perkins (DDR-877).

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 510 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 68091-KN (color)

    USS Perkins (DD-877)

    Jacket patch of a ship's insignia used during the 1960s.

    Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 184KB; 610 x 715 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69593-KN (color)

    USS Perkins (DD-877)

    Jacket patch of a ship's insignia used in 1966.

    Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 193KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented on these pages, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Perkins (DD/DDR-877). The following list features some of these images:

    The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."



  • Photo #: 80-G-423011
    USS Perkins (DDR-877) underway on 1 December 1950, while serving as plane guard for USS Valley Forge (CV-45), which was launching AD-4Qs of CAG-5 off San Diego, California.
    Starboard broadside aerial view. The ship is still in her original radar picket configuration, with a pole foremast, 40mm guns, and a tall tripod mainmast for her air-control radars.


    The following photographs were taken after Perkins had been refitted with a tripod foremast, 3"/50 twin gun mounts, and a SPS-8 height-finding radar antenna atop her after deckhouse:

  • Photo #: USN 1045347
    USS Perkins (DDR-877) underway, circa 1953. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was taken several years earlier.
    Port quarter low aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1078452
    USS Perkins (DDR-877) in a harbor, 9 March 1954.
    Starboard bow surface view, with crew in "whites" manning the rail.


  • Photo #: USN 1043080
    USS Perkins (DDR-877) underway in Subic Bay, Philippines, 5 July 1959. Photographed by Hyatt.
    Surface view taken from directly astern.

  • Photo #: USN 1043081
    As USN 1043080, but port bow high aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1043082
    As USN 1043080, but port broadside surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1043083
    As USN 1043080, but starboard broadside surface view.


  • Photo #: USN 1052118
    USS Perkins (DDR-877) comes alongside USS Oriskany (CVA-34) for refueling, 24 October 1960.
    Port bow surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1078755
    USS Perkins (DDR-877) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, November 1960.
    Starboard bow (rather toward the broadside) surface view. Palm fronds frame the upper part of the view.


    The following photographs were taken after Perkins had undergone her FRAM II modernization:

  • Photo #: USN 1094466
    USS Perkins (DD-877) underway, 13 June 1963. Photographed PH1 J.M. Julius, of Squadron VU-7.
    Starboard bow low aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1094467
    As USN 1094466, but port bow low aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1094365
    USS Perkins (DD-877) underway, 11 July 1963. Photographed PH2 Harold E. Terry, of Squadron VU-7.
    Port quarter high aerial view. A DSN "DASH" drone helicopter is on Perkins's flight deck.

  • Photo #: USN 1094367
    As USN 1094365, but port bow aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1073539
    USS Perkins (DD-877) underway at sea, August 1963.
    Starboard broadside aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1097273
    USS Perkins (DD-877) underway, 28 February 1964. Photographed PHCS Brown, of USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63).
    Port bow low aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1106227
    USS Perkins (DD-877) underway at sea, 7 March 1964. Photographed PH3 J.D. Rudd, of USS Coral Sea (CVA-43).
    Port bow (very tight on the bow) low aerial view.

  • Photo #: KN-13567 (color)
    USS Perkins (DD-877) underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 10 August 1966. Photographed PH2/AC H.E. James, of squadron VC-1.
    Port bow very low aerial view, taken from about the height of the top Perkins's after mast.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


  • For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Perkins (DD-877, later DDR-877 and DD-877), 1945-1973.


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


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