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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:
| If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
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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:
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Photo #: NH 93723 U.S. Navy destroyers At Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918. Third ship from the left (just inboard of the outboard destroyer) is USS Terry (Destroyer # 25). USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2) is in the right background. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 470 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42563 Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina "O" type submarines in drydock, circa 1919. USS O-10 (Submarine # 71) is identifiable, flanked by two of her sisters. The drydock is in the process of being filled. USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) is outside the dock, in center. Traces of her World War I camouflage pattern remain on her middle smokestack, though her hull has been repainted and her number ("25") can be seen on her bow. Three other destroyers and the partially completed gunboat Asheville (Gunboat # 21) are also present. Note details of the drydock caisson, and the crane on the pier in the distance. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 123KB; 670 x 675 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 60279 Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina Seven "O" type submarines in drydock, circa 1919. USS O-1 (Submarine # 62) is in the foreground. USS O-3 (submarine # 64) is next astern, to left. USS O-10 (Submarine # 71) is the most distant, in the right center. Outside the drydock (center background) are three destroyers, one of which is USS Terry (Destroyer # 25), and USS Asheville (Gunboat # 21), which is under construction. The drydock is being filled. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 128KB; 610 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42565 Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina Seven "O" type submarines in drydock, circa 1919. USS O-1 (Submarine # 62) is in the foreground. USS O-3 (submarine # 64) is next astern, to left. USS O-10 (Submarine # 71) is the most distant, in the right center. Outside the drydock (center background) are three destroyers, one of which is USS Terry (Destroyer # 25), and USS Asheville (Gunboat # 21), which is under construction. The drydock is in the process of being filled. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 137KB; 595 x 765 pixels |
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USS Terry may be among the destroyers seen in the following photograph:
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Photo #: NH 99855 Destroyers at Dry Tortugas coaling station, Florida, 15 March 1914 Members of the Second Division, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, these ships are (from left to right): This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) crewmember, which was another member of the division. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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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." |
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