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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18), 1910-1919
USS Lamson, a 700-ton Smith class destroyer built
at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in February 1910.
She served along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean area
prior to 1917, participating in operations off the troubled Dominican
Republic and Mexico in 1916. In July 1917, a few months after
the United States entered World War I, Lamson steamed to
the Azores, where she was employed on patrol and escort missions
until October. After that, the destroyer was based at Brest, France,
performing similar functions in a successful effort to control
the German submarine threat against Allied shipping. A month after
the 11 November 1918 Armistice ended the fighting, she returned
home. USS Lamson was decommissioned in July 1919 and was
sold in November of that year.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
Lamson (Destroyer # 18).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 88479
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18)
Running builder's trials, circa late 1909 or early 1910.
Photographed by J.W. Dawson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1978.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 85147
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18)
At anchor, circa 1910, before her smokestacks were raised.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99253
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18)
Underway in 1912.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 99252
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18)
In harbor, circa 1912.
Collection of Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN.
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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USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18) is seen in the background
of the following view of another ship:
Photo #: NH 56377
USS Benham (Destroyer # 49)
Leaving Brest harbor, France, to take escort position, on 22
October 1918.
USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18) is in the left center distance.
Note the pattern camouflage worn by both destroyers.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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USS Lamson (Destroyer # 18) may be among the destroyers
seen in the following photograph:
Photo #: NH 99867
Destroyers in port, 4 January 1914
These are probably members of the First Division, U.S. Atlantic
Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, which included (on 1 January 1914): Smith
(Destroyer # 17), Lamson (Destroyer # 18), Preston
(Destroyer # 19), Flusser (Destroyer # 20) and Reid
(Destroyer # 21). Smith and Lamson had their smokestacks
arranged like the ship in the middle (1-2-1). Preston
had four equally-spaced smokestacks, like the destroyer second
from right.
This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34) crewmember, a three-stack member of the Second
Division, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla. A destroyer of
that division is visible in the left background.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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