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Namesake
	63k	Donald McNeil Fairfax, born 10 March 1818 in Mt. Eagle, Virginia, entered the Navy as a midshipman 12 August 1837. As executive officer in San Jacinto, on 8 November 1861 he boarded the British SS Trent to remove Confederate commissioners after the ship had been stopped by his captain. His distinguished service in the Civil War included command of Cayuga, Nantucket, and Montauk. Rear Admiral Fairfax retired 30 September 1881, and died at Hagerstown, Md., 10 January 1894.		Bill Gonyo
USS Fairfax (DD-93)
	189k	Undated, location unknown. Hanging out the wash.		Ed Zajkowski/Robert Hurst
	54k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	178k	Undated, Acapulco.		Frank Hoak III, Captain US Navy retired
	451k	Photo #: NH 70607, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) being prepared for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 15 December 1917. Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart / Robert Hurst
	92k	Photo #: NH 54129, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) ready for launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 December 1917. The Sponsor, Mrs. H. George, is standing on the platform at the ship's bow, holding the christening bottle. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	108k	Launching ceremonies at Mare Island for the USS Fairfax (DD 93) on December 15, 1917.		Darryl Baker
	52k	Circa March-April 1918 prior to her camouflage paint scheme. Photo from the Universal Ship Cancellation Society		Bill Gonyo
	121k	USS Fairfax (DD 93), SC 273 & SC 278 at outfitting berth at Mare Island on March 1, 1918.		Darryl Baker
	77k	Fairfax departing Mare Island in May 1918.		Darryl Baker
	96k	As above.		Darryl Baker
	514k	Photo #: NH 55612, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) making smoke while steaming at 25 knots during trials in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard. Note the ship's pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Joe Radigan / Robert Hurst
	73k	Photo #: NH 54133, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) at anchor in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard during the ship's trials. Note her pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		USN
	98k	Photo #: NH 23, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) making smoke while running at 25 knots, during trials in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard. Note this ship's pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	69k	Photo #: NH 54130, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) steaming at 25 knots while making no smoke, during trials in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard. Note the ship's pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	90k	Photo #: NH 2025, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) at anchor in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard during the ship's trials. Note her pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	90k	Photo #: NH 54132, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) at anchor in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard during the ship's trials. Note her pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	91k	Photo #: NH 54131, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) at anchor in the San Francisco Bay area, 21 May 1918. Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard during the ship's trials. Note her pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	184k	USS Fairfax (DD-93) and another unidentified destroyer underway in the Atlantic, 1918. Image from A History Of The Transport Service: Adventures And Experiences Of United States Transports And Cruisers In The World War, by Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN, published by George H Doran Company, New York.		Robert Hurst
	142k	Camouflage plan dated August 9 1918.		Darryl Baker
	66k	Photo #: NH 103248, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) underway, circa October 1918. Probably photographed from USS SC-331. Collection of George K. Beach. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	40k	Photo #: NH 103247, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) underway, photographed from USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), circa summer-fall 1918. Note that Fairfax' port side camouflage scheme is different from that applied when she was first completed. Collection of Commander Haines H. Lippincott, USN(ChC). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	71k	Photo #: NH 41728, Sinking of S.S. Lucia, 17 October 1918 motor launch from USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5) leaving USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) with survivors from the American steamship Lucia. Fairfax is visible in the background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	727k	Photo #: NH 54134, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) underway with the survivors of S.S. Lucia on board, circa 18 October 1918. They were later transferred to USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser # 5). Note Fairfax' pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	132k	USS Florida (BB-30) in port with the destroyer USS Fairfax (DD-93) sometime after 27 October 1918, when she arrived at Brest for patrol and escort duty in European waters.		Scott Koen/ussnewyork.com
	64k	Starboard bow view of the USS Fairfax (DD-93) at sea sometime between 1919-1921. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1984.041.001.053.		Mike Green
	54k	Bow view of USS Fairfax(DD-93) underway at sea sometime between 1919-1921. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No. 1984.041.001.049.		Mike Green
	62k	Starboard side view of the USS Fairfax (DD-93) underway at sea sometime between 1919-1921. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No. 1984.041.001.052.		Mike Green
	108k	Photo #: NH 54136, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) in harbor, circa late 1918 or early 1919. Photographed by Zimmer. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	70k	Photo #: NH 54135, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) view of the ship's forward and midships superstructure, probably taken at Brest, France, in late 1918. Photographed by Zimmer. Note the small identification number painted below her pilothouse, canvas weather screens, and the 1-pounder automatic anti-aircraft gun mounted by her forward smokestacks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	94k	View of target practice on board the destroyer USS Fairfax (DD 93) in the waters off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1919. Image part of a photograph album containing images from the World War I era. Photo courtesy of the National Naval Aviation Museum.		Bill Gonyo
	76k	Photo #: NH 54137, USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93) at anchor, 11 October 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
0509343	230k	Fairfax (DD-93) moored at an east coast port (possibly Annapolis), spring 1938. Photo taken by contributor's great-great-grandfather, by Charles Henry Raymond.		Michael Merritt
0509344	230k	Fairfax (DD-93) moored, probably on East River, New York, during late 1930s.		Dave Wright
	61k	Photo #: NH 67728, USS Fairfax (DD-93) at Poughkeepsie, New York, 17 June 1939. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	322k	Photo #: NH 76141, Hiroshi Saito (1886-1939), late Japanese Ambassador to the United States. Page from the "Japan Times Weekly", published in Tokyo, 20 April 1939, page 523, with fine-screen halftone reproductions of photographs taken at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on 18 March 1939, as Ambassador Saito's remains were embarked on USS Astoria (CA-34) for return to Japan. He had died in Washington, D.C., on 26 February 1939. Astoria is seen in the lower photograph, as the launch Anita Clay approaches with Ambassador's Saito's remains on board. The destroyer in the background of the center photograph is USS Fairfax (DD-93). Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	58k	Anchored in the Hudson River in July 1940.		Paul Rebold
On British Service
The RCN took custody of HMS Richmond at Halifax on 26 November 1940, and she commissioned on 5 December when her RN crew arrived, sailing for Devonport and refit on 19 December. Delayed at St. John's, NF, by defects, she arrived at Devonport on 1 February 1941; although completed and worked up by 16 March, a grounding at Holyhead while en route to Liverpool returned the ship for further repair at Southampton. HMS Richmond was allocated to NEF with 17th Escort Group when repairs were completed in early June 1941, escorting convoy WS9A for its first three days en route. Thereafter the ship was based at St. John's, NF, until returning to Cardiff for a long refit starting on 29 October 1941. On completion of a Tobermory work up, HMS Richmond joined 27th Escort Group based on the Clyde, her first task being to escort the initial stage of convoy PQ14 from the UK to Iceland, during which she collided with the American Francis Scott Key. Damage was severe and, after being towed to Iceland for temporary repairs, she then had to be towed to Liverpool for repair. When the damage had been made good, and after a further work up, HMS Richmond was ordered to join the WLEF, arriving at Halifax on 1 September 1942. In February 1943 she was again in collision, with Reinholt, and again repaired at Liverpool from 18 February to 31 May 1943, prior to returning to Canada. HMS Richmond continued to be based at Halifax until December 1943, when she returned to Britain via Horta, arriving on the Tyne to lay up on 27 December 1943. Allocated to Russia in lieu of Italian tonnage, she was refitted by Palmers, who were similarly refitting HMS Chelsea, and became Zhguchiy on 16 July 1944 and passed to Kola for service with the Northern Fleet. She remained in Russian hands until 24 June 1949 when she returned to the RN at Rosyth, arriving at Grangemouth on 29 July 1949 to be broken up by G. & W. Brunton. (Foreign service history thanks to Robert Hurst.)
	68k	The 'Town' class destroyer HMS Richmond (ex-USS Fairfax, DD-93) date and location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	74k	HMS Richmond showing the aftermath of the collision with the Francis Scott Key on March 31 1942.		Robert Hurst
On Soviet Service as Zhguchiy.
	106k	The Soviet Union Zhguchiy (ex-HMS Richmond, ex-USS Fairfax) underway postwar towing a torpedo target. Undated, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	80k	Undated, location unknown.		Igor Ageev

LCDR Stanford Caldwell Hooper    Apr 6 1918 - Sep 17 1918 (Later RADM)

LTJG Guy Carlton Barnes    Sep 17 1918 - Feb 17 1919

LCDR William Ward Smith    Feb 17 1919 - Oct 27 1920

LCDR Willis Augustus (Ching) Lee Jr.    Oct 27 1920 - Jan 12 1921 (Later VADM)

LT Henry Mylin Kieffer    Jan 12 1921 - Oct 1921

LCDR Frank Alfred Braisted    Oct 1921 - Jun 19 1922 (Later RADM)

(Decommissioned June 19 1922 - May 1 1930)

LCDR Edward Joseph O'Keefe    May 1 1930 - Mar 10 1932

LCDR Warren Allen Shaw    Mar 10 1932 - Jun 5 1934

LCDR Hugh Wilson Olds    Jun 5 1934 - May 20 1937

LCDR Paul Luker Mather    May 20 1937 - May 15 1940 (Later RADM)

LT Thomas Joseph Hickey    May 15 1940 - Jul 12 1940

LT Vincent James Meola    Jul 12 1940 - Nov 26 1940

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