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52k | Commodore George Hamilton Perkins was born at Hopkinton, N.H., 20 October 1835. Appointed midshipman in 1851, he served the Navy to 1899. He fought with Farragut at Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, at the capture of Governor Moore and three ships of the Montgomery Flotilla, and at the surrender of New Orleans in April 1862. He also fought at Port Hudson and Whitehall’s River in July 1862, at the captures of Mary Sorley and Tennessee, the Battle of Mobile Bay, and at Forts Powell, Gaines, and Morgan in August 1864. Following peacetime naval service, he died at Boston, Mass., 28 October 1899. Photo #: NH 47485. Captain George H. Perkins, USN photographed circa 1882-1891. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart/Robert M. Cieri |
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| 118k | USS Perkins (DD-377) in port during the 1930s. This view may have been taken at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa Autumn 1936 when the ship was completed (USN Photo No 91865). | Robert Hurst |
| 109k | Photo #: NH 74276. USS Perkins (DD-377) steaming through heavy seas, 27 August 1937. Photographed from the stern of another destroyer. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 126k | Photo #: NH 74321. USS Perkins (DD-377) underway in harbor (probably at San Diego, California), 1 November 1937. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 149k | Destroyers underway in San Diego Harbor, California, 1938. Identifiable ships are: USS Drayton (DD-366), at left; USS Preston (DD-379), at right; and USS Perkins (DD-377), in center, partially masked by Preston. Note colored bands painted on these destroyer's after smokestacks, possibly for unit identification purposes. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | Fred Weiss |
| 112k | Photo #: NH 74322. USS Perkins (DD-377) at anchor on 18 April 1938, with USS Flusser (DD-368) in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 104k | Photo #: NH 43518. USS Perkins (DD-377) returning from a Fleet cruise, 28 April 1938. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 78k | Photo #: NH 68329. USS Perkins (DD-377) underway, circa the later 1930s.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 60k | Circa 1939, location unknown. | Robert Hurst |
| 166k | Northrup BT-1 bomber (Bureau # 0640), (Bombing Squadron Five's plane number 516) Upside down and sinking after going over the side of USS Yorktown (CV-5) during flight operations in the Pacific, 23 July 1940. USS Perkins (DD-377) is coming up at right to rescue the plane's crew, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas D. Cummins (Pilot) and Radioman Third Class Donald MacKillop. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
| Fred Weiss |
| 90k | Photo #: 80-G-266837. USS Perkins (DD-377) photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8) in a south Pacific harbor, 25 February 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | Tony Cowart |