USS Terry, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer built at Newport News, Virginia, was placed in commission in October 1910. During the years prior to U.S. involvement in World War I, she took part in exercises and other routine operations in U.S. East Coast and Caribbean area waters, sometimes while technically in reserve status. In June 1916 Terry was nearly lost in a grounding accident and spent much of the next year undergoing repairs at the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina.
By the time this work was completed, the United States was at war, and Terry was soon engaged in patrol duty and convoy escort work in the western Atlantic. The destroyer crossed the ocean to Ireland early in 1918 to conduct combat operations against German U-Boats then threatening the British Isles. She returned home following the November 1918 Armistice and was decommissioned a year later.
Terry was inactive at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, until June 1924, when she was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard. As USCGC Terry (CG-19) she was employed for the rest of the decade, and then some, in the intense struggle against liquor smugglers. Given back to the Navy in October 1930, she was again laid up. USS Terry was sold for scrapping in May 1934.
This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS Terry (Destroyer # 25, later DD-25).
For other images that are probably related to USS Terry,
by way of her sister ship, USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34), see:
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Photo #: NH 43766 USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) At anchor, prior to World War I U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43765 USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) In harbor with her crew standing in formation on deck, prior to World War I U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 520 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41807 USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) Photographed in 1918, while painted in pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 535 pixels |
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Photo #: 111-SC-43622 USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) In a British Isles port, 1918. Note her pattern camouflage. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 505 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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USS Terry is seen in the background in the following photographs of other subjects:
USS Terry may be among the destroyers seen in the following photograph:
For other images that are probably related to USS Terry,
by way of her sister ship, USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34), see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 10 March 2005