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Photo # NH 99822:  USS Walke underway during her trials, 1911

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USS Walke (Destroyer # 34, later DD-34), 1911-1935.
Renamed DD-34, 1933

USS Walke, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in July 1911. She operated with the Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla off the East Coast and in the Caribbean during the next two and a half years, followed by a period of relative inactivity that lasted until mid-1915. Further service in the western Atlantic and West Indies region followed, with patrols off the strife-torn Dominican Republic among her undertakings.

Undergoing shipyard overhaul when the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Walke was soon restored to seagoing condition and, in May and June 1917, crossed the Atlantic to begin convoy and patrol operations in the waters off western France and the United Kingdom. She returned to the U.S. in November 1917 and thereafter performed patrol and escort service along the East Coast. During the first half of 1919 Walke took part in exercises in the vicinity of Cuba and off the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. She was at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from mid-July until decommissioned in December 1919. Laid up for the next decade and a half, she was formally given hull number DD-34 in July 1920 and renamed DD-34 in July 1933, thus freeing the name Walke for a new destroyer, though construction of that ship, (DD-416), did not begin for another five years. The former USS Walke (DD-34) was stricken from the list of Naval vessels in March 1935 and scrapped soon afterwards.

USS Walke was named in honor of Rear Admiral Henry A. Walke (1809-1896), a important figure in the Civil War's Western Rivers campaigns.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS Walke (Destroyer # 34, later DD-34).

For many more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Crew and Activities, circa 1914.


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

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    Photo #: NH 99822

    USS Walke
    (Destroyer # 34)

    Underway, during the time of her trials in 1911.
    Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by N.L. Stebbins, of Boston, Massachusetts.
    Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).

    Donation of David Shadell, 1987.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41979

    USS Walke
    (Destroyer # 34)

    In port, dressed with flags, circa late 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 79531-A

    USS Walke
    (Destroyer # 34)

    At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 6 April 1919. She appears to have boats tied up astern.
    Part of a panoramic photograph by L.C. Grant, with the Falk Photo Company, Boston, Massachusetts. This view is cropped from Photo #: NH 79531.

    Courtesy of the St. Louis Memorial Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Note:
    The image from which this view is cropped also appears (partially) in Photo # NH 79530.

     
    Photo #: NH 41999

    USS Walke
    (Destroyer # 34)

    Fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 29 December 1910.
    Walke's after smokestack was in place at the time of this photograph, taken less than two months after her 3 November 1910 launching.
    Note ice at the water's edge, and on the ship's hull, forward.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2773

    USS Walke
    (Destroyer # 34)

    Fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 July 1911.
    The ship has awning and bridge cover framing installed, but still lacks her guns and torpedo tubes. Walke was placed in commission three weeks later, on 22 July.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     

    For many more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) -- Crew and Activities, circa 1914.


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


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