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Photo # NH 41916:  USS Sharkey underway in June 1924

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Sharkey (Destroyer # 281, later DD-281), 1919-1931

USS Sharkey, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built at Squantum, Massachusetts, as part of the vast World War I shipbuilding program. Commissioned in late November 1919, more than a year after the conflict's end, she mainly served in the western Atlantic and Caribbean region during the next decade. Sharkey visited the Pacific in February 1926 and January-March 1929 to participate in major U.S. Fleet exercises. Between June 1926 and July 1927 she served on the far side of the Atlantic, visiting ports in northern Europe and around the Mediterranean Sea. USS Sharkey was decommissioned in May 1930, as the navy replaced well-worn active fleet destroyers with ones that had spent most of the previous decade in reserve. She was stricken from the Navy list in October 1930 and sold for scrapping in January 1931.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Sharkey (Destroyer # 281, later DD-281).


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

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Photo #: NH 98992

USS Sharkey
(Destroyer # 281)

At Boston, Massachusetts, December 1919.
Panoramic photograph by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston, Mass.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Crosby Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 900 x 480 pixels

 
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

 
Photo #: NH 41916

USS Sharkey
(DD-281)

Underway in June 1924.
Taken by Photographers Mate Carl August Stahl, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41917

USS Sharkey
(DD-281)

Underway in June 1924.
Taken by Photographers Mate Carl August Stahl, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 505 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 48997

USS Sharkey
(DD-281)

At Gibraltar, January 1927.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67903

USS Sharkey
(DD-281)

In harbor, during the 1920s.
Note the recessed anchor housing fitted to her bow and signal flags flying from her formast.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98991

USS Sharkey
(Destroyer # 281)

Towing a disabled seaplane into Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 6 March 1920.
The aircraft appears to be an F5L.

Collection of Edward C. Blackburn. Donated by William E. Wyman, July 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 38KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 43454

Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


View of the Yard's Delaware River waterfront, with the hammerhead crane in center, 31 May 1923. Among the ships visible are:
USS Dobbin (AD-3),fitting out at left;
Destroyers Sharkey (DD-281), Coghlan (DD-326) and Preston (DD-327), at right; and
USS Lamson (DD-328), astern of Preston with two other destroyers moored inboard.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 93660

USS Vestal
(AR-4)

Positioning a propeller "drydock" for removal of the starboard propeller of USS Sharkey (DD-281), circa 1923-1924.
Note Sharkey's channel-iron propeller guard.

Courtesy of the Estate of Virginia Cornwell, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 


The following photographs show USS Sharkey (DD-281) as a small element in the background of a view of another subject, or show a ship that may be her:

Photo #: NH 93658

USS Vestal
(AR-4)

Lowers a propeller "drydock" over the side, for use in removing a propeller from a destroyer (possibly USS Sharkey, DD-281), circa 1923-1924.

Courtesy of the Estate of Virginia Cornwell, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 93659

USS Vestal
(AR-4)

Preparing to remove a propeller from a destroyer (possibly USS Sharkey, DD-281) with the use of a propeller "drydock" lowered over her side, circa 1923-1924.

Courtesy of the Estate of Virginia Cornwell, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 43453

Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


View of the Yard's Delaware River waterfront, with the hammerhead crane in center, 31 May 1923. Among the ships visible are:
USS Lamson (DD-328), in left center;
USS Sandpiper (AM-51) and USS Teal (AM-23), at right, with the crane ship Kearsarge beyond;
Destroyers Preston (DD-327), Coghlan (DD-326) and Sharkey (DD-281), partially visible at left.
USS Dobbin (AD-3) is fitting out on the opposite side of the pier, at left.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 


In addition to the views referenced above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other photograph of USS Sharkey (DD-281). The following listing describes this image:

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


  • Photo #: 80-G-1035024
    USS Sharkey (DD-381) passing under the Levensau Bridge, while transiting the Kiel Canal, Germany, in 1926. Photographed by C.A. Stahl.
    Port bow high surface view (from about the height of the ship's foremast lookout position).


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

    The image listed above is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it 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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