USS Edsall (DD-219), was a Clemson-class destroyer, the first of two United States Navy ships named after Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873–1899). She was sunk by a combined Japanese air and sea attack, approximately 200 miles east of Christmas Island on 1 March 1942.
Edsall in San Diego Harbor in the 1920s
Edsall and USAT Willard A. Holbrook off Java, 15 February 1942
USS Edsall sinking
USS Whipple , a Clemson-class destroyer was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of Captain Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), who served in the Continental Navy.
USS Whipple circa 1921
A torpedo from Whipple striking USS Langley.
USS Whipple at Sydney, 1942.