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	57k	Francis Asbury Roe, born in Elmira, N.Y., 4 October 1823, graduated from the Naval School, Annapolis, in 1848. Six years later, while serving in Porpoise on the Asiatic Station, he participated in an engagement with 13 Chinese armored junks off Macao. Six of the junks were sunk and the others were scattered. During the Civil War, in April 1862, he was recommended for promotion for gallantry for his actions onboard Pensacola as that ship led Admiral Farragut's starboard column past Forts Jackson and St. Philip. After commanding Katahdin on the Mississippi, he was ordered to command Sassacus in September 1863. Eight months later he was again commended for gallantry for engaging the Confederate ram Albemarle and the gunboat Bombshell in the sounds of North Carolina. After the end of the war he commanded the Mexican Division of the Gulf Squadron; served as fleet captain for both the Asiatic Station from 1868 to 1871 and the Brazil Station from 1874 to 1875. Promoted to Rear Admiral 3 November 1884, while serving as Governor of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, he was transferred to the retired list 4 October 1885. He died in Washington, D.C., 28 December 1901. Photo #: NH 371, Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe, USN (Retired) in full dress uniform, with sword and medals. This photograph was probably taken on or about 4 October 1893. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe, USN. Donated by Miss Mary E. Mason, 1929. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart/Robert M. Cieri
	106k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	76k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	100k	Photo #: NH 103520, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) ready for launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 24 July 1909. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	110k	Photo #: NH 103519, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) sliding down the ways during her launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 24 July 1909. The original print is a halftone reproduction. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	60k	Photo #: NH 76511, First airplane takeoff from a warship, Eugene B. Ely takes his Curtiss pusher airplane off from the deck of USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	50k	Photo #: NH 43764, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) in port, circa 1910-1915. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	56k	Photo #: NH 100400, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) laying a smoke screen, prior to World War I. Photographed by Waterman. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	132k	Ship's officers and crew, circa 1915-1916. The two officers in the center are possibly (from left to right): Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Aaron S. Merrill, and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Guy C. Barnes, Roe's commanding officer. The original photograph, by Rox, 518 So. Palafox, Pensacola, Florida, was printed on a postal card, which was mailed at Pensacola on 23 September 1916 with the message: "Look natural?" Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #: NH 93718.		Robert Hurst
	69k	Photo #: NH 64986, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) on patrol in 1918. She is painted in "dazzle" camouflage. Collection of Peter K. Connelly. Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	90k	Contributor Jim Pacetti's Dad on the deck of the Roe in 1918.		Jim Pacetti
	134k	USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), at right, taking on oil from USS Warrington (Destroyer # 30), at sea off the coast of Brest, France, 1 June 1918. Note Warrington's pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Paul Rebold
	46k	Circa 1919, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	150k	Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, showing the machine foundation for the Marine Railway under construction, 13 January 1919. Ships in the background include: USS Asheville (Gunboat # 21), fitting out at extreme left; USS SC-405, in left center; and USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), in center, on the opposite side of the pier, with other destroyers beyond her. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #: NH 45246.		Robert Hurst
	116k	USCG Monaghan (CG-15, ex-USS DD-32), USCG Roe (CG-18, ex-DD-24), USCG McDougal (CG-6, ex-DD-54) and USCG Ammen (ex-DD-35) at New York Navy Yard, 20 October 1926.		Robert Hurst

LCDR Clark Howell Woodward    Sep 17 1910 - Nov 8 1913 (Later RADM)
ENS Robert Melville Griffin    Nov 8 1913 - Dec 13 1913 (Later VADM)
ENS Frank Thompson Leighton    Dec 13 1913 - Oct 2 1914 (Later RADM)
LTJG Guy Carlton Barnes    Oct 2 1914 - Aug 6 1917
CDR Howard Hartwell James Benson    Aug 6 1917 - Aug 20 1918 (Later COMO)
LCDR William Adams Hodgman    Aug 20 1918 - Feb 4 1919
LCDR Harry George Black    Feb 4 1919 - Mar 4 1919
LCDR Robert Messinger Hinckley    Mar 4 1919 - Dec 1 1919
Under Coast Guard command
LCDR Joseph Edward Stika (USCG)    Jul 1926 - May 1929 (Later VADM)

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