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 . 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.
Ships Constructed
Hull no.
Ship name
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Fate
Service notes
DD261
Delphy
30 November 1918
26 October 1923
Wrecked
in the Honda Point disaster 8 September 1923
DD262
McDermut
27 March 1919
22 May 1929
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD263
Laub
17 March 1919
8 October 1940
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD264
McLanahan
5 April 1919
8 October 1940
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD265
Edwards
24 April 1919
8 October 1940
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD266
Greene
9 May 1919
23 November 1945
Wrecked
in a typhoon, struck 1945
DD267
Ballard
5 June 1919
5 December 1945
Scrapped
1946
DD268
Shubrick
3 July 1919
26 November 1940
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD269
Bailey
27 June 1919
26 November 1940
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD270
Thornton
15 July 1919
2 May 1945
Abandoned
Donated to Ryukyu Islands 1957
DD271
Morris
21 July 1919
15 June 1922
Scrapped
1936
DD272
Tingey
25 July 1919
24 May 1922
Scrapped
1936
DD273
Swasey
8 August 1919
10 June 1922
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD274
Meade
8 September 1919
18 December 1939
Transferred
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
DD275
Sinclair
8 October 1919
1 June 1929
Scrapped
1935
DD276
McCawley
22 September 1919
1 April 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD277
Moody
10 December 1919
2 June 1930
Sold
Sold 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 1919
11 March 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD279
Meyer
17 December 1919
15 May 1929
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD280
Doyen
17 December 1919
25 February 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD281
Sharkey
28 November 1919
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD282
Toucey
9 December 1919
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD283
Breck
1 December 1919
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD284
Isherwood
4 December 1919
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD285
Case
8 December 1919
22 October 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD286
Lardner
10 December 1919
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD287
Putnam
18 December 1919
21 September 1929
Sold
converted to banana boat Teapa
DD288
Worden
24 February 1920
1 May 1930
Sold
converted to banana boat Tabasco
DD289
Flusser
25 February 1920
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD290
Dale
16 February 1920
1 May 1930
Sold
converted to banana boat Masaya
DD291
Converse
28 April 1920
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD292
Reid
3 December 1919
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD293
Billingsley
1 March 1920
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD294
Charles Ausburn
23 March 1920
1 May 1930
Scrapped
London Naval Treaty
DD295
Osborne
17 May 1920
1 May 1930
Sold
converted to banana boat Matagalpa
References
^ "Destroyer History Foundation" . Destroyer History Foundation. 2013.
^ "McDermut" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ Blair, Clay (1996). Hitler's U-Boat War:The Hunters 1939–1942 . New York: Random House. pp. 743&744. ISBN 0-394-58839-8 .
^ "McCawley" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Meyer" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Doyen" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Sharkey" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Toucey" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Breck" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Isherwood" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Case" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Lardner" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ Fetterly, Don. "The Saga of SS Masaya " . Pacific Wrecks . Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Flusser" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Converse" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Reid" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Billingsley" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
^ "Charles Ausburn(e)" . DANFS . United States Navy. Retrieved 5 January 2014 .
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