#uss dobbin

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USS WHITNEY (AD-4), USS DOBBIN (AD-3), USS MCFARLAND (DD-237), USS GOFF (DD-247), and USS LONG (DD-209), more than 40 destroyers, two battleships, three cruisers and tenders moored in Balboa harbor, Canal Zone, Panama.

Photographed on October 25, 1934.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-455966

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Panorama photo of the Reserve Fleet Basin in Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

"Visible ships include (left to right): USS DOBBIN (AD-3) fitting out, USS KANSAS (BB-21), USS SOUTH CAROLINA (BB-26), and USS HANNIBAL (AG-1)."

Note: the aircraft flying above the yard.

Photographed sometime between 1920 and 1921.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: S-574-Q

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USS Dobbin (AD-2) with several destroyers alongside, circa 1937. They include (from left to right): USS Phelps (DD-360), USS Worden (DD-352), USS MacDonough (DD-351), USS Dewey (DD-349) and USS Hull (DD-350). 

Note the rather odd placement of the destroyers’ hull numbers.

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Port side view of USS Dobbin (AD-3) moored at San Diego on Navy Day, 27 October 1932. The destroyers tied up alongside are (from inboard to outboard): USS Sands (DD-243); USS King (DD-242); USS Humphries (DD-236) and USS Lawrence (DD-250). All ships are dressed with flags for the holiday.

Also note the little plane flying overhead.

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USS Dobbin (AD-3) off Gonaives, Haiti, with seven destroyers alongside, March 1928. The destroyers are (from outboard to inboard): USS Kane (DD-235); USS King (DD-242); unidentified; USS James K. Paulding (DD-238); USS Sturtevant (DD-240); and two unidentified.