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fuel oil stowage, and two of the original battery of four triple torpedo tubes were deleted. The Blakeley spent W'orld War II in the Atlantic, initially operating in the Neutrality Patrol and later escorting convoys as far as Tunisia. She was torpedoed off Martinique on 25 May 1942, with six men killed and 21 injured. Although she lost 60 feet of her bow, the Blakeley was brought to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and repaired with the bow of her decommissioned sister ship Taylor (DD-94), and was returning to duty in September 1942, when this photograph was taken.
The USS Blakeley (DD-150), named for the commander of the sloop-of-war Wasp in the War of 1812, was one of the few “four-piper” destroyers ordered during World War I to retain her original main battery of four 4-inch guns throughout her career. She remained active throughout most of her service from commissioning in May of 1919 through decommissioning in July 1945—except for a period in reserve from 1932 to 1937. In common with most of her sister ships brought back into service at the end of the 1930s, the Blakeley lost her after boiler and stack for increased