Victory Destroyer Plant

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A wooden bridge from Dorchester to Squantum, constructed in 1917 to allow Boston Elevated Railway streetcars to bring employees to the plant Wooden bridge to Squantum, 1919.jpg
A wooden bridge from Dorchester to Squantum, constructed in 1917 to allow Boston Elevated Railway streetcars to bring employees to the plant

The Victory Destroyer Plant was a United States Naval Shipbuilding yard operational from 1918 to 1920 in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was then reused as a civil airport, and later Naval Air Station Squantum. It was owned by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, and was constructed in order to relieve destroyer construction at the nearby Fore River Shipyard. [1] Still later in the late 1920s it was used to build yachts by the firm Lamb & O'Connell. One of these yachts, the US10 Tipler III, a 30-square-meter racing yacht, participated in the 1929 International Races sponsored by the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead.

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Ships Constructed

Hull no.Ship nameCommissionedDecommissionedFateService notes
DD261 Delphy 30 November 191826 October 1923Wreckedin the Honda Point disaster 8 September 1923
DD262 McDermut 27 March 191922 May 1929Scrapped London Naval Treaty [2]
DD263 Laub 17 March 19198 October 1940Transferred Destroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD264 McLanahan 5 April 19198 October 1940TransferredDestroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD265 Edwards 24 April 19198 October 1940TransferredDestroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD266 Greene 9 May 191923 November 1945Wreckedin a typhoon, struck 1945
DD267 Ballard 5 June 19195 December 1945Scrapped1946
DD268 Shubrick 3 July 191926 November 1940TransferredDestroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD269 Bailey 27 June 191926 November 1940TransferredDestroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD270 Thornton 15 July 19192 May 1945AbandonedDonated to Ryukyu Islands 1957
DD271 Morris 21 July 191915 June 1922Scrapped1936
DD272 Tingey 25 July 191924 May 1922Scrapped1936
DD273 Swasey 8 August 191910 June 1922TransferredDestroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD274 Meade 8 September 191918 December 1939TransferredDestroyers for Bases Agreement [3]
DD275 Sinclair 8 October 19191 June 1929Scrapped1935
DD276 McCawley 22 September 19191 April 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [4]
DD277 Moody 10 December 19192 June 1930SoldSold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931 for making of World War I film Hell Below . DD-277 was made up to look like a German World War I destroyer and was sunk in 1933 by studio demolitions.
DD278 Henshaw 10 December 191911 March 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty
DD279 Meyer 17 December 191915 May 1929ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [5]
DD280 Doyen 17 December 191925 February 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [6]
DD281 Sharkey 28 November 19191 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [7]
DD282 Toucey 9 December 19191 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [8]
DD283 Breck 1 December 19191 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [9]
DD284 Isherwood 4 December 19191 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [10]
DD285 Case 8 December 191922 October 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [11]
DD286 Lardner 10 December 19191 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [12]
DD287 Putnam 18 December 191921 September 1929Soldconverted to banana boat Teapa [13]
DD288 Worden 24 February 19201 May 1930Soldconverted to banana boat Tabasco [13]
DD289 Flusser 25 February 19201 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [14]
DD290 Dale 16 February 19201 May 1930Soldconverted to banana boat Masaya [13]
DD291 Converse 28 April 19201 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [15]
DD292 Reid 3 December 19191 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [16]
DD293 Billingsley 1 March 19201 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [17]
DD294 Charles Ausburn 23 March 19201 May 1930ScrappedLondon Naval Treaty [18]
DD295 Osborne 17 May 19201 May 1930Soldconverted to banana boat Matagalpa [13]

References

  1. "Destroyer History Foundation". Destroyer History Foundation. 2013.
  2. "McDermut". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 14 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Blair, Clay (1996). Hitler's U-Boat War:The Hunters 1939–1942. New York: Random House. pp. 743&744. ISBN   0-394-58839-8.
  4. "McCawley". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 17 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  5. "Meyer". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  6. "Doyen". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 1 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  7. "Sharkey". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 14 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  8. "Toucey". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 29 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  9. "Breck". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 24 July 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  10. "Isherwood". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 15 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  11. "Case". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 14 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  12. "Lardner". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Fetterly, Don. "The Saga of SS Masaya". Pacific Wrecks. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  14. "Flusser". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 1 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  15. "Converse". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 14 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  16. "Reid". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 24 February 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  17. "Billingsley". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  18. "Charles Ausburn(e)". DANFS. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 27 March 2004. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

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