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Photo # NH 99257:  USS Trippe underway in 1912

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USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33, later DD-33), 1911-1934.

USS Trippe, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer built at Bath, Maine, was commissioned in March 1911. She operated in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas during the six years leading up to U.S. entry into World War I. Though her activities mainly involved exercises and training, in April and May 1914 Trippe served off eastern Mexico during the U.S. intervention there, and during the first half of 1916 she was in reduced commission as part of a reserve flotilla.

In May 1917, just over two months after the United States declared war on Germany, Trippe left Boston for the combat zone. For the next year and a half, while based at Queenstown, Ireland, she escorted convoys and conducted anti-submarine patrols as part of the Allied effort to control the U-Boat threat. With the fighting ended, in December 1918 the destroyer began her homeward voyage. Additional service along the U.S. East Coast was followed by decommissioning at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1919.

Trippe was laid up until 1924, when she was overhauled and transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard. Placed in commission as USCGC Trippe (CG-20) in June of that year, she spent the rest of the decade enforcing prohibition laws along the coasts of Connecticut and New York. Returned to the Navy in May 1931, she was again laid up at Philadelphia until July 1934, when she was stricken from the Navy list and scrapped.

USS Trippe was named in honor of Lieutenant John Trippe (1785-1810), a hero of the Tripolitan War.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33, later DD-33).


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Photo #: NH 99257

USS Trippe
(Destroyer # 33)

Underway in 1912.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 390 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 50124

USS Trippe
(Destroyer # 33)

In the Hudson River off New York City, during the October 1912 Naval Review.
A torpedo boat is visible beyond her bow.
Note that the original print misidentifies Trippe as USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41980

USS Trippe
(Destroyer # 33)

At a mooring buoy with another destroyer alongside, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
Note her pattern camouflage scheme.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 505 pixels

 
Photo #: 111-SC-43617

USS Trippe
(Destroyer # 33)

At her moorings, circa 1918, probably in a British Isles harbor.
Note her pattern camouflage.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 570 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: NH 41981

USS Trippe
(Destroyer # 33)

Deparing Queenstown, Ireland, for the United States in December 1918.
Note her long "homeward bound" pennant, and man waving his cap from atop Trippe's stern depth charge rack.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 


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