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Photo # NH 94140:  USS Robinson running trials, circa October 1918

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88, later DD-88), 1918-1940

USS Robinson, a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in mid-October 1918. Early the next month the new destroyer passed through the Panama Canal, en route to Norfolk, Virginia, arriving shortly before the 11 November Armistice brought World War I's active combat to an end. During the next four years Robinson primarily operated along the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean Sea. In May 1919, as one of the large number of destroyers assigned to lifeguard duties in connection with the trans-Atlantic flight of the NC flying boats, she briefly left those areas to steam north toward Newfoundland and then east to the Azores.

Decommissioned early in August 1922, Robinson was laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for nearly two decades. She was recommissioned in August 1940, as the World War II crisis intensified, but in November of that year was transferred to Great Britain as part of the destroyers for bases deal. As HMS Newmarket, she served in the Royal Navy as a convoy escort from late 1940 until September 1943, and as an aircraft target ship from spring 1944 until after Germany's surrender a year later. The old ship was scrapped later in 1945.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88, later DD-88).


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Photo #: NH 94140

USS Robinson
(Destroyer # 88)

Running trials in the San Francisco Bay area, California, circa October 1918.
Note her pattern camouflage.

Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 94141

USS Robinson
(Destroyer # 88)

Running trials in the San Francisco Bay area, California, circa October 1918.
Note her pattern camouflage.

Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 83559

USS Robinson
(Destroyer # 88)

Underway in New York Harbor, in late 1918 or early 1919. She is steaming past USS George Washington (ID # 3018), seen in the right background.
Fort Richmond, on Staten Island, is in the left background.
Note Robinson's pattern camouflage.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103174

USS Robinson
(Destroyer # 88), at left,
and
USS George Washington (ID # 3018), at right

Underway in New York Harbor, in late 1918 or early 1919.
Note Robinson's pattern camouflage scheme.
The original image is printed on postal card ("AZO") stock.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 83560

USS Robinson
(Destroyer # 88)

Underway in New York Harbor, in late 1918 or early 1919.
Note her pattern camouflage, and that on the freighter in the right distance.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103177

USS George Washington
(ID # 3018), left center,
escorted by
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88), right center

At sea, probably when George Washington carried President Woodrow Wilson to France in December 1918. A battleship is also present, in the extreme right distance.
Note Robinson's pattern camouflage scheme.

Collection of Robert S. Waters. Donated by Mrs. Alice W. Thomas, 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 450 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

 
Photo #: NH 103218

Camouflage Type N-12, Design K


Plan prepared by the Bureau of Construction and Repair in 1918, for a camouflage scheme for U.S. Navy "Flush Deck" type destroyers. It shows the ship's starboard side, bow, stern and superstructure ends, and was approved by Naval Constructor John D. Beuret, USN.
USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88) is known to have worn this camouflage pattern. USS Colhoun (Destroyer # 85) also appears to have received it.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 116KB; 1200 x 435 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88, later DD-88). 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-1035005
    USS Robinson (Destroyer # 88) underway at high speed in the Santa Barbara Channel, California, during her trials in October 1918.
    Port broadside (slightly toward the bow) surface view. She is painted in pattern camouflage.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1035004
    USS Robinson (DD-88) in harbor, circa 1919-1922.
    Port bow (rather toward the broadside) surface view. The ship is painted overall gray, with large (non-countershaded) numerals ("88") on her bow.


    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".


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


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