Photo #: NH 63257-A
USS Flusser (DD-20)
Making 26.04 kt. on Run 12-North, while on builder's trials shortly
before she commissioned, circa September-October 1909. She was
constructed by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 93815
USS Flusser (DD-20)
Running builder's trials, shortly before she was commissioned
in October 1909. She was constructed by Bath Iron Works, Bath,
Maine.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston.
Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT,
1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 63258
USS Flusser (DD-20)
Running builder's trials shortly before she commissioned, circa
September-October 1909. She was constructed by Bath Iron Works,
Bath, Maine.
Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 93696
USS Flusser (DD-20)
Photographed circa 1910-11, while serving as a unit of the Seventh
Division, Atlantic Torpedo Fleet. She is dressed with flags for
some special occasion.
Note that her funnels are much taller than when she was first
completed. The numeral "7" is attached to her # 2 funnel.
Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 98018
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20)
Underway, circa the early 1910s.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54955
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania
Older destroyers in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, preparing
to go out of commission, 5 March 1919.
They are, from left to right:
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18);
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20);
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10); and
USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5).
Other ships are in the background.
Note depth charge racks, after steering wheels and twin 18-inch
torpedo tubes on Lamson and Flusser.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 43037
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania
Destroyers in the Reserve Basin awaiting decommissioning, circa
March-April 1919. Ships present include (from left to right):
USS Preble (Destroyer # 12);
USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5);
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10);
unidentified "750-ton" destroyer;
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20); and
unidentified "750-ton" destroyer.
Note the bent bow on the third ship from right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 93816
USS Flusser (DD-20)
View in the engine room, probably looking forward, showing control
handwheels, gages, steam lines, and builder's plaque for her
Parsons turbines. Also note electric lights, ladder and lightened
structural members.
Photographed while Flusser was under construction at Bath
Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1909.
Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT,
1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 93817
USS Flusser (DD-20)
View in the engine room, probably looking aft, showing Parsons
turbines and associated fittings. Note ladder, lightened structural
members, railings and "non-skid" treads on the working
platform.
Photographed while Flusser was under construction at Bath
Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1909.
Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT,
1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 98011
USS Flusser (Destroyer # 20)
Ship's officers and crew, photographed prior to the First World
War by Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 79484
USS Flusser (DD-20)
Halftoned photograph of one of her 18" torpedo tubes, circa
1916.
Copied from the book United States Navy Illustrated, published
in New York, 1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 91480
USS Flusser (DD-20)
Launching, 20 July 1909, at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Retired), 1980.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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