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Photo # 19-N-60-10-18:  USS Whipple with other destroyers at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Autumn 1907

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USS Whipple (Torpedo Boat Destroyer # 15), 1902-1920 -- In Groups with Other Ships


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  • USS Whipple (Torpedo Boat Destroyer # 15), 1902-1920.


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    Photo #: 19-N-60-10-17

    Destroyers at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia
    , Autumn 1907

    The destroyers in the foreground basin (from left to right):
    USS Hull (Destroyer # 7);
    USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8);
    USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6);
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15) and
    USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14).
    USS Stewart (Destroyer # 13) is at the end of the dock, at right, and USS Talbot (Torpedo Boat # 15) is hauled out on the marine railway at left.
    On the opposite side of the river are several torpedo boats of the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla and their barracks ship, the old cruiser Atlanta.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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    Photo #: 19-N-60-10-18

    Destroyers at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia
    , Autumn 1907

    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS Hull (Destroyer # 7);
    USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8);
    USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6);
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15) and
    USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14).

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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

     
    Photo #: NH 100036-KN (color)

    U.S. Navy Destroyers

    At San Pedro, California, circa 1910-1914.
    The original photograph was published on a color-tinted postcard by the M. Kashower Company, Los Angeles, California, at about the time it was taken.
    These destroyers are (from left to right):
    USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6);
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15); and
    USS Hull (Destroyer # 7).

    Courtesy of R.D. Jeska, 1984.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93693

    Pacific Fleet Destroyers


    Moored together at San Diego, California, circa 1909-1911.
    Photographed by the Arcade View Company, San Diego.
    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS Paul Jones or Perry (Destroyer # 10 or 11);
    USS Preble (Destroyer # 12);
    USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6);
    USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14);
    USS Stewart (Destroyer # 13);
    USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8);
    USS Hull (Destroyer # 7); and
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15).
    The numeral "2", painted on some of these destroyers, indicates they are members of the Second Torpedo Division.

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 92185

    The Pacific Fleet's "Big Five" torpedo craft


    At San Diego, California, prior to World War I.
    These destroyers include (from left to right):
    USS Preble (Destroyer # 12);
    USS Perry (Destroyer # 11);
    USS Hull (Destroyer # 7);
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15); and
    USS Stewart (Destroyer # 13).

    Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93692

    USS Stewart
    (Destroyer # 13) -- left center
    and
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15) -- right

    At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1912-1913.
    The stern of USS Manila (1898-1913) is in the left foreground.
    Note that Stewart flies a 48-star National Ensign, while Whipple has a 13-star "boat" flag.

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94954

    U.S. Navy destroyers
    of the First Division, Torpedo Flotilla, Pacific Fleet

    At Long Beach, California, circa 1913-1916.
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15) is in the middle.
    The others are two of the following: USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10), USS Perry (Destroyer # 11) or USS Preble (Destroyer # 12).

    Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1983.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 92186

    U.S. Pacific Fleet destroyers


    At Mazatlan, Mexico, 26 April 1914, keeping watch on the Mexican gunboat Morales (the two-funneled ship in the right center distance).
    The two destroyers nearest to the camera are (in no particular order):
    USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14) and
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15).

    Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 52105

    Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


    Destroyers awaiting decommissioning, in the Yard's Reserve Basin, 4 March 1919.
    Ships present include (from left to right):
    USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8);
    USS Perry (Destroyer # 11);
    USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15);
    USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14); and
    USS Worden (Destroyer # 16).
    Note Lawrence's after torpedo tube (with torpedo visible) and pattern camouflage; 48-star flags, radio masts and signal flags on several of these destroyers; and small craft moored to the ships' sterns.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 43036

    Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania


    Destroyers awaiting decommissioning in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, during the Spring of 1919. Photographed by La Tour.
    Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 43036 (complete caption).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    For more views related to this ship, see:

  • USS Whipple (Torpedo Boat Destroyer # 15), 1902-1920.


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


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