USS Sinclair, a 1109-ton Clemson class destroyer built at Squantum, Massachusetts, was commissioned in October 1919. She was designated DD-275 in July 1920. In March 1920, following brief operations in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean areas, she was transferred to the Pacific and was based there for the rest of her career. The destroyer made a cruise to Alaska in mid-1920, participated in training and tactical exercises off the West Coast, and was out of commission at San Diego, California, during most of 1922 and 1923. After returning to active service, early in 1924 she passed through the Panama Canal for a few months of Fleet exercises in the Caribbean. In mid-1925 Sinclair accompanied the Battle Fleet on its trans-Pacific voyage to Australia, New Zealand and Samoa. The next four years were spent conducting routine training and readiness operations in the Eastern Pacific, punctuated by Caribbean maneuvers in 1927 and service in Hawaiian waters in 1928. Sinclair was placed out of commission in June 1929 at San Diego. In November 1930 she was briefly renamed Light Target Number 3 and redesignated IX-37, but reverted to her original name and hull number several months later, after the cancellation of her conversion to a target ship. USS Sinclair was sold for scrapping in August 1935.
This page features all the views we have related to Sinclair (Destroyer # 275, later DD-275).
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Photo #: NH 98365 USS Sinclair (DD-275) and USS Sharkey (DD-281) At Boston, Massachusetts, December 1919. Photographed by Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland Street, Boston. Note the crude identification numbers on the ship's bows, probably added after the photograph was taken. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 635 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 69452 USS Sinclair (DD-275) Anchored in San Diego harbor, California, circa 1920. Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 545 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 67891 USS Sinclair (DD-275) Underway in harbor, with her rails manned, during the middle or later 1920s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 50097 USS Sinclair (DD-275) Entering San Diego harbor, California, circa 1930. Ballast Point is in the left background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42539 "Red Lead Row", San Diego Destroyer Base, California Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Many of the ships present are identified in Photo # NH 42539 (complete caption). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 159KB; 740 x 515 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98019 Culebra Island, Puerto Rico Destroyers at anchor in Culebra Bay, during the 1920s. Identifiable ships present include: USS Somers (DD-301), at right; USS Reno (DD-303), at left; USS Henshaw (DD-278), left center; USS Flusser (DD-289), beyond Henshaw; USS Sinclair (DD-275), center. Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 450 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43154 Victory Destroyer Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts Interior of the building slips, photographed by Monks & Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts, between 27 April and 3 May 1919. The destroyers under construction in the foreground are, from the foreground: Meyer (Destroyer # 279, builder's # 359), Henshaw (Destroyer # 278, builder's # 358) and Moody (Destroyer # 277, builder's # 357). Beyond these three ships are at least three more, possibly McCawley (Destroyer # 276), Sinclair (Destroyer # 275) and Meade (Destroyer # 274). The unplated deck of Doyen (Destroyer # 280) is in the extreme right foreground. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 156KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
28 February 2003