# Victory Destroyer 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. 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 |