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805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Hull (DD-330), 1921-1931
USS Hull, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer,
was built at San Francisco, California. She was commissioned in
April 1921 and began nearly a decade of operations that primarily
took place along the West Coast from Panama to Alaska. In 1924
and 1927, she transited the Panama Canal to participate in U.S.
Fleet exercises in the Caribbean. The 1927 cruise took her up
the East Coast to New York before she returned to the Pacific.
Hull was decommissioned at the end of March 1930, during
a general restructuring of the Fleet's destroyer force. She was
scrapped in 1931.
USS Hull was named in honor of Commodore Isaac
Hull (1773-1843), a signficant Naval commander during and
after the War of 1812.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
Hull (DD-330), 1921-1931.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 76128
USS Hull (DD-330)
Making smoke, during the 1920s.
Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 510 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 74318
USS Hull (DD-330)
Underway, during the 1920s.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 77258
USS Cuyama (AO-3)
With twelve destroyers tied up alongside, during the early 1920s.
The ships present include (from left to right):
USS Jacob Jones (DD-130);
USS Hull (DD-330);
USS Thompson (DD-305);
USS Corry (DD-334);
USS Kennedy (DD-306);
USS Reno (DD-303);
USS Cuyama (AO-3;
USS Stoddert (DD-302);
USS Yarborough (DD-314);
USS Sloat (DD-316);
USS Litchfield (DD-336);
USS Shubrick (DD-268);
USS Young (DD-312);
Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, 1973. From the scrapbooks of Fred
M. Butler.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 90447
United States Fleet
Off Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, during the mid-1920s.
Destroyers present include:
USS Farquhar (DD-304), at left;
USS Reno (DD-303), center;
USS William Jones (DD-308), right center;
and USS Hull (DD-330).
Photographed by the Shura Studio, Honolulu.
Courtesy of Charles Sass, 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 450 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 70684
Mare Island Navy Yard, California
Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry
Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer
Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): USS
Farenholt (DD-332), USS Sumner (DD-333) and USS
Hull (DD-330).
The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740
feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over
the sill.
Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 148KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98274
USS Hull (DD-330)
Launching, at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Union
Plant, Potrero Works, San Francisco, California, 18 February
1921.
A portrait of her Sponsor, Miss Elizabeth Hull, is inset into
the image.
Collection of Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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In addition to the images presented above, the National
Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Hull
(DD-330). The following list features this image:
The image listed below is NOT in the
Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
Photo #: 80-G-460034
USS Hull (DD-330) steaming abreast USS California
(BB-44), 1927.
Starboard bow surface view, taken from about the height of Hull's
foremast crows nest and California's conning tower top.
Hull is on the left in this view, filling about a quarter
of the photograph's width. California, on the right and
more distant, occupies about 40% of the image's width.
Reproductions of this image should be available through
the National Archives photographic
reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical
Center.
The image listed in this box is NOT
in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain
it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain
Photographic Reproductions".
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