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Photo # NH 69344: USS Kennedy anchored off San Diego, California, circa 1920-21

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USS Kennedy (DD-306), 1920-1931

USS Kennedy, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in August 1920. She mainly operated along the West Coast for the next decade, and, on 8 September 1923, narrowly escaped destruction in the Honda Point disaster, in which seven other destroyers were wrecked.

On several occasions Kennedy left her home operating area for exercises in the Caribbean and Hawaii, and a cruise to South America. In mid-1925, she accompanied the Battle Fleet on a long voyage to the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. As part of a treaty-mandated reduction in the destroyer force, Kennedy was decommissioned in May 1930 and scrapped in 1931.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Kennedy (DD-306).


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Photo #: NH 52042

USS Kennedy (DD-306)

Laying a smoke screen, during battle practice off the U.S. West Coast, circa 1921.
Note that her after torpedo tubes are trained abeam, as are some of her guns.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69346

USS Kennedy (DD-306)

Underway off San Diego, California, during the early 1920s.
Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69344

USS Kennedy (DD-306)

Anchored off San Diego, California, circa 1920-1921.
Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69345

USS Kennedy (DD-306)

Anchored off San Diego, California, circa 1920-1921.
USS Birmingham (CL-2) is at left.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67622

USS Kennedy (DD-306)

Underway in a harbor, circa 1923-1930.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69515

Destroyer Division THIRTY-THREE

Moored together off San Diego, California, on 16 April 1921.
Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.
These ships are (from left to right):
USS Stoddert (DD-302);
USS Paul Hamilton (DD-307);
USS Reno (DD-303);
USS Kennedy (DD-306);
USS Thompson (DD-305) and
USS Farquhar (DD-304)

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 480 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 72598

Destroyer Division THIRTY-THREE

Moored off San Diego, California.
Probably photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego, on 16 April 1921.
These ships are (from left to right):
USS Stoddert (DD-302);
USS Paul Hamilton (DD-307);
USS Reno (DD-303);
USS Kennedy (DD-306);
USS Thompson (DD-305) and
USS Farquhar (DD-304)

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98029

"Old Hen and Chickens"

USS Kanawha (AO-1) with thirteen destroyers alongside, off San Diego, California, during the early 1920s.
Photographed by Bunnell, 414 E Street, San Diego.
Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 98029 (complete caption).
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
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

 
Photo #: NH 45226

Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington

Destroyers and other ships at the Navy Yard, 11 January 1922.
Identifiable ships include (from front to rear):
USS McLanahan (DD-264);
USS Thompson (DD-305);
USS Reno (DD-303);
USS Kennedy (DD-306);
USS New York (BB-34) and
USS Texas (BB-35.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69456

USS Stoddert (DD-302)

At anchor, probably off San Diego, California, circa 1920.
USS Kennedy (DD-306) is in the right distance.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 


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Page made 30 July 2002
New image added 11 September 2002