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"Red Lead Row," San Diego Destroyer Base, California. Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Ships present are identified as (left to right, in the right diagonal row): Stansbury (DD-180); MacKenzie (DD-175); Renshaw (DD-176);
Howard (DD-179); Gillis (DD-260); Tingey (DD-272);
McLanahan (DD-264); Swasey (DD-273); Morris
(DD-271); Bailey (DD-269); Tattnall (DD-125); Breese
(DD-122); Radford (DD-120); Aaron Ward (DD-132) --
probably; Ramsey (DD-124); Montgomery (DD-121); and
Lea (DD-118).
(left to right, in the middle diagonal row): Wickes
(DD-75); Thornton (DD-270); Meade (DD-274); Crane
(DD-109); Evans (DD-78); McCawley (DD-276); Doyen
(DD-280); Elliot (DD-146); Henshaw (DD-278); Moody
(DD-277); Meyer (DD-279); Sinclair (DD-275); Turner
(DD-259); Philip (DD-76); Hamilton (DD-141); Boggs
(DD-136); Claxton (DD-140); Ward (DD-139); Hazelwood
(DD-107) or Kilty (DD-137); Kennison (DD-138); Jacob
Jones (DD-130); Aulick (DD-258); Babbitt (DD-128);
Twiggs (DD-127); and Badger (DD-126).
(left to right, in the left diagonal row): Shubrick
(DD-268); Edwards (DD-265); Palmer (DD-161); Welles
(DD-257); Mugford (DD-105); Upshur (DD-144); Greer
(DD-145); Wasmuth (DD-338); Hogan (DD-178);
O'Bannon (DD-177); and -- possibly -- Decatur (DD-341).
(Nested alongside wharf in left center, left to right):
Prairie (AD-5); Buffalo (AD-8); Trever (DD-339); and
Perry (DD-340). Minesweepers just astern of this group are
Partridge (AM-16) and Brant (AM-24).
Nearest ship in the group of destroyers at far left is Dent
(DD-116). The others with her are unidentified. US Navy photo NH 42539
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