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DD-34 USS WALKE

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, 2 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 86.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Fore River, Quincy on March 5 1910.
Launched November 3 1910 and commissioned July 22 1911.
Walke was decommissioned at Philadelphia December 9 1919
and berthed with the reserve fleet until her sale.
Walke lost her name to new construction July 1 1933.
Stricken March 8 1935.
Fate Sold and scrapped in 1935.
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Walke 66kPhoto #: NH 66752. Captain Henry Walke, USN photograph taken circa 1863-66, in the uniform of a Captain. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Walke 23kUndated, location unknown.USN
Walke 13kUndated, location unknown.USN
Walke 118kPhoto #: NH 2773, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 July 1911. The ship has awning and bridge cover framing installed, but still lacks her guns and torpedo tubes. Walke was placed in commission three weeks later, on 22 July. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Walke 70kPhoto #: NH 99822, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) underway, during the time of her trials in 1911. Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by N.L. Stebbins, of Boston, Massachusetts. Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912). Donation of David Shadell, 1987. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Walke 73kPhoto #: NH 99845, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) repairing a hole in Walke's after starboard underwater hull side, while she was drydocked circa March 1914. Note the starboard propeller shaft and its supports in the foreground, and open rivet holes in the ship's plating near the hole. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Paul Rebold
Walke 93kUSS Walke (Destroyer # 34) Making repairs on an underwater hole in Walke's after starboard hull side, at Dry Tortugas, Florida, 17 March 1914. Note Fort Jefferson in the left background, ship's propeller guard, arrow painted on her side to mark the location of the hole, her above-deck steering gear, her after 3"/50 gun stowed facing forward, and working platform supported by two boats. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.Fred Weiss
Walke Photo #: NH 99824, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) Chief Petty Officer performs pre-launching maintenance on an 18-inch torpedo, which is partially withdrawn from the starboard twin torpedo tubes, 31 March 1914. Note torpedo davit at right and steam issuing from smokestack steam pipes in the background. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Paul Rebold
Walke 90kUSS Walke (Destroyer # 34) Crew members pose with the ship's port side twin 18-inch torpedo tubes, with the torpedoes partially withdrawn for maintenance, circa 1914. Note the training gear and sight mounted atop the tubes, the torpedoes' four-blade propellers, and belled tops of the smokestack steam pipes. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Walke 52kUSS Walke (Destroyer # 34) Firing an 18-inch torpedo from the ship's starboard twin torpedo tubes during practice, circa 1914. Note the trainer using a telescopic sight atop the tubes. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Walke 86kPhoto #: NH 41979, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) in port, dressed with flags, circa late 1918. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Walke 78kPhoto #: NH 79531-A, USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 6 April 1919. She appears to have boats tied up astern. Courtesy of the St. Louis Memorial Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, 1974. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
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