- USS Flusser (DD-20)
The second USS "Flusser" (DD–20) was a "Smith" class
destroyer in theUnited States Navy during theWorld War I . She was named forCharles Williamson Flusser ."Flusser" was launched
20 July 1909 byBath Iron Works ,Bath, Maine ; sponsored by Miss Genevieve Virden, grand-niece of Lieutenant Commander Flusser; and commissioned28 October 1909 Lieutenant Commander J. P. Morton in command."Flusser" arrived at
Charleston, South Carolina , her home port,17 December 1909 , and began her participation in the regular operating schedule of theAtlantic Torpedo Fleet , an organization many times redesignated in the years that followed. She cruised from theCaribbean to the coast ofNew England until August 1916, when she began neutrality patrols off New York and inLong Island Sound .After a repair period at
New Orleans, Louisiana early in 1917, "Flusser" had escort duty on the east coast until30 July 1917 when she departed Charleston for 2 months of ocean escort and patrol duty based onPonta Delgada ,Azores . She had similar duty out of Brest,France , operating across theEnglish Channel between22 October 1917 and9 December 1918 , returning to Charleston31 December . She was decommissioned atPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 14 July 1919 , and sold21 November 1919 .References
*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f3/flusser-ii.htm
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* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/020.htm NavSource Photos]
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