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DD-26 USS PERKINS

CLASS - PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 26' 11" x 10' 1" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 3 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 12,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 30 Knots, Crew 86.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Fore River, Quincy on March 22 1909.
Launched April 9 1910 and commissioned November 18 1910.
Perkins decommissioned at Philadelphia December 5 1919 and
berthed with the reserve fleet until her sale.
Perkins lost her name to new construction on November 1 1933.
Stricken March 8 1935.
Fate Sold June 28 1935 and broken up for scrap.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
52k	Photo #: NH 47485. Captain George H. Perkins, USN photographed circa 1882-1891. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
78k	Undated, location unknown.	David Buell
58k	Photo #: 19-N-21-3-9. USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) photographed on 1 October 1910, while nearing completion at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.	Tony Cowart
53k	Photo #: NH 99256. USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) underway in 1912. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
44k	Photo #: NH 44195. USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) at anchor, prior to World War I. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
55k	Photo #: NH 100426. USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) photographed by N. Moser during World War I, while painted in pattern camouflage. Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
109k	Photo #: NH 41962. USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) wearing pattern camouflage, 1918. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
83k	Photo #: NH 767, USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) moored to a bouy while painted in pattern camouflage, 1918. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Paul Rebold
52k	Photo #: NH 103768, USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) underway off the U.S. East Coast, 1918. Note her pattern camouflage scheme. Collection of Arthur J. Rozette. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Paul Rebold
113k	Photo #: 19-N-1105. USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26) moored to a bouy in 1918. Note her "dazzle" camouflage, and the depth charge racks and "Y" gun depth charge thrower mounted on her after deck. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.	Tony Cowart
38k	Photo #: NH 99514, USS Perkins (Destroyer # 26), at left with battleships and other units of the Atlantic Fleet in harbor, circa 1919. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Paul Rebold

USS PERKINS DD-26 History
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