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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6), 1903-1920
USS Hopkins, name ship of a class of two 408-ton destroyers
built at Wilmington, Delaware, was commissioned in September 1903.
She spent the next four years operating along the U.S. East Coast
and in the Caribbean area on training and readiness assignments.
Between December 1907 and May 1908 Hopkins accompanied
the "Great White Fleet" on its long voyage around South
America to California. Soon after arriving on the West Coast she
was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for service in the waters from
Mexico to Alaska.
In May 1917 Hopkins went to the Panama Canal Zone to
begin World War I escort and patrol work off Central America.
She steamed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, in August of that year
and served for the rest of the war between the Atlantic Coast
and Bermuda. No longer needed after the fighting ended, USS Hopkins
was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania,
in June 1919. She was stricken from the Navy List in October 1919
and sold for scrapping in September 1920.
USS Hopkins was named in honor of Commodore
Esek Hopkins (1718-1802), the first Commander in Chief of
the Continental Navy.
This page features, or provides links to, all the views
we have related to Hopkins (Destroyer # 6), 1903-1920.
For other pictures related to this ship, see:
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
-- In Groups with Other Ships.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 53566
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
At anchor, circa 1904.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77117
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1906.
Published at about that time by Chilton Printing Company, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 101488
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
Steams past Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, circa
May-July 1908, during the "Great White Fleet"'s visit
to the West Coast.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 450 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 95191
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
Anchored at San Diego, California, prior to World War I.
Photographed by the Arcade View Company, San Diego.
Courtesy of Jack L. Howland, 1983.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 65148
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
At San Francisco, California, shortly before the U.S. entered
World War I.
Note the ship's number painted on her bow.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1968.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98240
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
Damage to the ship's port side, forward, received in a collision
with USS Vesuvius.
The original print was on a postal card mailed in April 1907.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear
Admiral C.M. Thomas.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 84KB; 510 x 765 pixels |
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For other pictures related to this ship, see:
USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6)
-- In Groups with Other Ships.
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