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DD-33 USS TRIPPE

CLASS - (Repeat) PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 27' x 9' 5" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 3 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 12,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 3 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 86.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron works, Bath Me. on April 12 1910.
Launched December 20 1910 and commissioned March 23 1911.
Returning to Boston in June 1914 Trippe operated from there until
being placed in ordinary there on January 27 1916. Reactivated
on July 25 1916, Trippe was decommissioned at Philadelphia November 6 1919 and
berthed with the reserve fleet until loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-20
June 7 1924. Returned May 2 1931.
Stricken July 5 1934.
Fate Sold and broken up for scrap in 1934.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
86k	Photo #: NH 61303. Lieutenant John Trippe, U.S. Navy, (1785-1810) engraved portrait by Charles Ste. Memin, 1809. Trippe was Commanding Officer of the U.S. Schooner Enterprise in that year. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
85k	USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33) Underway in 1912. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Fred Weiss
70k	USS Trippe (DD-33) in the Hudson River, off New York, City, during the October 1912 Naval Review. A torpedo boat is visible beyond her bow. Note that the original print misidentifies the Trippe as USS Monaghan (DD-32).	Robert Hurst
108k	Newspaper clipping from September 5, 1915 captioned; "U. S. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER TRIPPE IN HER NEW WAR PAINT, ADOPTED BY THE BY ITS RESEMBLANCE TO THE WAVES." Photo by Waterman.	Michael Mohl
103k	USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33) At a mooring buoy with another destroyer alongside, at Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918. Note her pattern camouflage scheme. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Fred Weiss
67k	USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33) At her moorings, circa 1918, probably in a British Isles harbor. Note her pattern camouflage. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.	Fred Weiss
82k	USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33) Deparing Queenstown, Ireland, for the United States in December 1918. Note her long "homeward bound" pennant, and man waving his cap from atop Trippe's stern depth charge rack. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Fred Weiss
23k	On Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.	Mike Green

USS TRIPPE DD-33 History
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