Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Photo # NH 70715-A:  ex-USS Thompson being stripped for scrap, 1931

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Thompson (DD-305), 1920-1931 -- Part II


This page features additional views related to USS Thompson (DD-305).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Thompson (DD-305), 1920-1931.


    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 #: NH 69515

    Destroyer Division THIRTY-THREE


    Moored together off San Diego, California, on 16 April 1921.
    Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.
    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS Stoddert (DD-302);
    USS Paul Hamilton (DD-307);
    USS Reno (DD-303);
    USS Kennedy (DD-306);
    USS Thompson (DD-305) and
    USS Farquhar (DD-304)

    Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 72598

    Destroyer Division THIRTY-THREE


    Moored off San Diego, California.
    Probably photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego, on 16 April 1921.
    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS Stoddert (DD-302);
    USS Paul Hamilton (DD-307);
    USS Reno (DD-303);
    USS Kennedy (DD-306);
    USS Thompson (DD-305) and
    USS Farquhar (DD-304)

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98029

    "Old Hen and Chickens"


    USS Kanawha (AO-1) with thirteen destroyers alongside, off San Diego, California, during the early 1920s.
    Photographed by Bunnell, 414 E Street, San Diego.
    Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 98029 (complete caption).
    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77258

    USS Cuyama (AO-3)


    With twelve destroyers tied up alongside, during the early 1920s. The ships present include (from left to right):
    USS Jacob Jones (DD-130);
    USS Hull (DD-330);
    USS Thompson (DD-305);
    USS Corry (DD-334);
    USS Kennedy (DD-306);
    USS Reno (DD-303);
    USS Cuyama (AO-3;
    USS Stoddert (DD-302);
    USS Yarborough (DD-314);
    USS Sloat (DD-316);
    USS Litchfield (DD-336);
    USS Shubrick (DD-268);
    USS Young (DD-312);

    Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, 1973. From the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 86082-A

    "Combined Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in Panama Bay, Jan. 21st 1921"


    Left section (of three) of a panoramic photograph taken by M.C. Mayberry, of Mayberry and Smith, Shreveport, Louisiana. Other views in the series are Photo #s: NH 86082-B and NH 86082-C.
    Among the ships present in this image are (from left to right): USS Paul Hamilton (DD-307), USS Farquhar (DD-304), USS Simpson (DD-221), USS Thompson (DD-305), USS Parrott (DD-218), USS Reno (DD-303), USS Dorsey (DD-117), USS Dent (DD-116) and USS Waters (DD-115).
    Chilean destroyers are in the center distance.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, D.H. Criswell Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 340 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45226

    Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington


    Destroyers and other ships at the Navy Yard, 11 January 1922.
    Identifiable ships include (from front to rear):
    USS McLanahan (DD-264);
    USS Thompson (DD-305);
    USS Reno (DD-303);
    USS Kennedy (DD-306);
    USS New York (BB-34) and
    USS Texas (BB-35.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45227

    Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington


    View of part of the Yard's waterfront, 8 March 1926.
    Ships alongside the pier in the foreground are (from left to right):
    USS Eagle 32 (PE-32);
    USS Swallow (AM-4); and
    USS Thompson (DD-305).
    USS Idaho (BB-42) is in the drydock in the right center background, and Coal Barge # 132 is tied up in front of the drydock entrance.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 590 pixels

    Note:
    this image forms the left side of a panorama with Photo # NH 45228.

     
    Photo #: NH 45228

    Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington


    View of part of the Yard's waterfront, 8 March 1926.
    USS Thompson (DD-305) is tied up to the pier at left, with a work float alongside her.
    USS Holland (AS-3) -- barely visible -- is under construction in the drydock in the right background.
    Note civilian barges at work on a pier in the right foreground.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 595 pixels

    Note:
    this image forms the right side of a panorama with Photo # NH 45227.

     
    Photo #: NH 67895

    USS Reno (DD-303)


    Making smoke during exercises, circa 1923-1930.
    Ship in the distance appears to be USS Thompson (DD-305).

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70715-A

    Ex-USS Thompson (DD-305)


    Being stripped for scrap, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 1931.
    This view is cropped from Photo # NH 70715.

    Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 630 pixels

     

    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Thompson (DD-305), 1920-1931.


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


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    Page made 7 August 2002
    New image added 31 August 2002