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Photo # NH 98154:  USS Broome in the Kiel Canal, Germany, 1920

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Broome (DD-210, later AG-96), 1919-1946

USS Broome, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned at the end of October 1919. After brief service along the U.S. East Coast, in May 1920 she steamed across the Atlantic to begin several months in European waters between the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. Later in the year she voyaged to the Far East for a tour with the Asiatic Fleet. Broome returned to the United States in 1922 and was decommissioned at San Diego, California, in December of that year.

Broome recommissioned in February 1930 and spent nearly all of the decade operating in the Pacific. She was transferred to the Atlantic in May 1939 and, after the outbreak of war in Europe in September, participated in Neutrality Patrols. As relations with Germany deteriorated during 1941, she took part in convoy operations between the U.S. and Iceland.

Once the United States formally entered World War II in December 1941, Broome continued her Atlantic area convoy and patrol service. Among other missions, she escorted several convoys across the ocean to North Africa and the British Isles. The destroyer also was employed on training duties, and in 1945 this became her primary purpose. In May of that year she was disarmed, redesignated AG-98 and subsequently assigned to the the Atlantic Fleet's Operational Training Command at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Broome went to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in December 1945 to begin inactivation preparations. Decommissioned in May 1946, she was sold for scrapping in November 1946.

USS Broome was named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel John Lloyd Broome, USMC, (1824-1898), who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1848 until 1888.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Broome (DD-210, later AG-96).


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Photo #: NH 98155

USS Broome
(Destroyer # 210)

Panoramic photograph, taken in 1919-1920, probably at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

Donation of Beverly Buchalski, October 2002.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 405 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98154

USS Broome (DD-210)


Passes under the Levensau Bridge, while transiting the Kiel Canal, Germany, in 1920.

Donation of Beverly Buchalski, October 2002.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82212

USS Broome (AG-96)


Off Charleston, South Carolina, circa mid-1945.
Note that she still retains four smokestacks, but has had her guns removed.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 265 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98156

USS Broome
(Destroyer # 210)

Ship's Officers and Crew on a pier at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa October-December 1919.
Panoramic photograph by the Keystone Photo Studio, 817 So. Broad, Philadelphia.
The destroyer directly behind these men is USS Babbitt (Destroyer # 128), not Broome.

Donation of Beverly Buchalski, October 2002.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 114KB; 1200 x 290 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 70793 (cropped)

Destroyers at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1930

These ships are (from left to right):
USS Badger (DD-126);
USS Claxton (DD-140);
USS Philip (DD-76);
USS Broome (DD-210);
and the stricken Corry (ex DD-334), which is being scrapped.
This view is cropped from Photo # NH 70793.

Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-3882

Survivor of the Steamship Alcoa Guide


Is brought ashore from USS Broome (DD-210) at Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 April 1942.
Alcoa Guide had been sunk by gunfire of the German submarine U-123 on 16 April. Broome rescued 27 of her survivors on 19 April. The last survivor of the ship was not picked up until 18 May. Six of Alcoa Guide's crew lost their lives as a result of this attack.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 98157

USS Broome
(Destroyer # 210)

Miss Mary Josephine Keyworth Broome, ship's Sponsor, with her party at Broome's christening ceremonies, 14 May 1919.
The ship was built at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Miss Broome was granddaughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Lloyd Broome, USMC, in whose honor USS Broome was named. Her attendants, at left, are wearing the War Service uniform of the Emergency Aid.

Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Broome. The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: 80-G-1024907
    USS Broome (DD-210) underway, circa the 1930s, with USS Pruitt (DD-347) steaming abreast in the background.
    Port broadside surface view, taken from about masthead height.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1024923
    USS Broome (DD-210) underway, circa the 1930s.
    Starboard broadside surface view, taken from about the height of Broome's foremast crow's nest.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1025116
    USS Broome (DD-210) underway, circa the 1930s.
    Port quarter surface view, taken from near-masthead height.

  • Photo #: 80-G-63868
    USS Broome (DD-210) underway off the U.S. East Coast, 9 May 1943.
    Port quarter aerial view, taken by the New York Navy Yard. The ship is painted in horizontal "two-tone" camouflage, probably Measure 22.

  • Photo #: 80-G-63870
    USS Broome (DD-210) underway off the U.S. East Coast, 9 May 1943.
    Port bow aerial view, taken by the New York Navy Yard.

  • Photo #: 80-G-241694
    USS Broome (DD-210) refueling at sea from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), 14 July 1944.
    Port quarter view, rather tight on the stern, taken from the carrier's starboard flight deck catwalk.

  • Photo #: 80-G-241696
    USS Broome (DD-210) refueling at sea from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), 14 July 1944.
    Port bow view, rather tight on the bow, taken from the carrier's starboard flight deck catwalk.

    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


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


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