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Photo # NH 51829:  USS Sampson at anchor in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 Decenber 1916

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USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63, later DD-63), 1916-1936

USS Sampson, 1111-ton lead ship of a class of six destroyers that introduced the triple 21-inch torpedo tube mounting to U.S. Navy service, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in late June 1916, she operated along the U.S. East Coast until May 1917, when, about a month after the United States had entered World War I, she steamed across the Atlantic to the European combat zone. For the rest of the conflict Sampson was based at Queenstown, Ireland, from which she conducted anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort missions. The destroyer returned to the U.S. early in 1919 and was employed during much of that year on torpedo test work. In May 1919 Sampson went to the Azores to serve as part of the destroyer picket line that supported the trans-Atlantic flight of the seaplane NC-4. Decommissioned in June 1921, she was laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the next decade and a half. USS Sampson was stricken from the list of Navy ships in January 1936 and sold for scrapping in September of that year.

This page features, and provide links to, all the views we have concerning USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63, later DD-63).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63, later DD-63) -- Photographs of Scale Model.


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

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    Photo #: NH 51829

    USS Sampson
    (Destroyer # 63)

    At anchor in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41781

    USS Sampson
    (Destroyer # 63)

    Anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41783

    USS Sampson
    (Destroyer # 63)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph of Sampson in the Atlantic, en route from the United States to Queenstown, Ireland, in May 1917.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46395

    USS Melville
    (Destroyer Tender # 2), at left

    With USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63) alongside, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
    Note men painting the searchlight above Sampson's pilothouse.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95794

    Trans-Atlantic Flight of the "NC" Aircraft, May 1919


    Diagram of the fifth leg of the flight of the NC-4 aircraft, between Ponta Delgada, Azores, and Lisbon, Portugal, on 27 May 1919. It also shows the positions of the 14 U.S. Navy destroyers stationed along the way.
    Printed by the Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, New York.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 900 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94774-KN (Color)

    "Uncle Sam's Ships"

    Cover for sheet music composed and written by Chief Yeoman Daisy May Pratt Erd, USNRF, during World War I. It features the names of 109 U.S. Navy ships, from battleships to tugs and patrol boats.

    Donation of Miss G.H. Erd, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 136KB; 585 x 765 pixels

     


    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63, later DD-63) -- Photographs of Scale Model.


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


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