Photo #: NH 104453
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
View on board, looking aft from the ship's foremast, circa 1916
or early 1917.
The original photograph is printed on postcard stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46202
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Crewmen in foul weather gear and life jackets during her voyage
to Queenstown, Ireland, from the U.S., May 1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46395
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2), at left
With USS Sampson (Destroyer # 63) alongside, at Queenstown,
Ireland, circa 1918.
Note men painting the searchlight above Sampson's pilothouse.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46398
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2), at left
With a destroyer alongside, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1917-1918.
The destroyer is one of the group numbered from 43 to 62, mounting
twin torpedo tubes.
Note the five-inch gun on Melville's deck, in the lower
left, and life rafts nested atop the destroyer's after deckhouse,
in the lower right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46203
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Scene in the ship's Optical Department, while she was stationed
at Queenstown, Ireland, during World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 46201
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Crewmen washing clothes in buckets, while she was stationed at
Queenstown, Ireland, as "mother ship" for U.S. destroyers
based there during World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 52984
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee
with officers of the U.S. and British Navies, during a visit
by the Congressmen to Melville, at Queenstown, Ireland,
circa 1918.
Among those present are:
Captain Joel R.P. Pringle, USN, ship's commanding officer
(seated in center);
Representative Lemuel R. Padgett, Committee Chairman (seated
third from right); and
Representative Thomas S. Butler, (seated second from right).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 52986
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee
inspect the ship's crew, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
Leading the group are Representative Lemuel R. Padgett, Committee
Chairman, and Captain Joel R.P. Pringle, USN, ship's commanding
officer.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 52987
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee
touring the ship, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918.
Leading the group are Representative Lemuel R. Padgett, Committee
Chairman, and Captain Joel R.P. Pringle, USN, ship's commanding
officer.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 52985
USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2)
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Naval Committee
leaving the ship after a visit, circa 1918.
Melville was tender for U.S. destroyers based at Queenstown,
Ireland.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 85
German Mines
On board USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2) at Queenstown,
Ireland, during World War I. These had been recovered by divers
from the German submarine UC-44, which had been destroyed
by the detonation of her own mines at Waterford, Ireland, in
1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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