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384k | Archibald Hamilton was the son of Paul Hamilton, Secretary of the Navy from 7 March 1809 to 31 December 1812. Archibald was appointed Midshipman 18 May 1809 and assigned to work with a new kind of hollow shot needed by frigate President. He next sailed for Europe in John Adams 31 January 1811 carrying dispatches for American officers in the Mediterranean. On his return to the United States, Archibald Hamilton was assigned to United States on which he won high commendation from his commanding officer, Commodore Stephen Decatur, for gallantry in action during the capture of British frigate Macedonian, 25 October 1812. Decatur selected him to bear the captured British flags to Washington. Appointed Acting Lieutenant 21 December 1812 and Lieutenant 24 July 1813, Hamilton served with distinction throughout the War of 1812 only to be killed shortly after the Treaty of Ghent had formally ended the war. Because of the slow communications of the day word of peace had not reached New York by 15 January 1815 when frigate President, carrying Hamilton, ran the blockade out of that port. The next day British men-of-war Endymion, Pomone and Tenedos overtook and captured President after a long and bloody running fight in which Hamilton was killed.
Black and white copy of portrait of Lieutenant Archibald Hamilton, posted by guerin60 to Wikipedia Commons | Robert Hurst |
USS Hamilton (DD-141)
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| 605k | Undated, the crew of the USS Hamilton (DD-141). | Lary Haggard |
| 43k | Undated, location unknown. Photo was taken by L. Eugene Klotzbach. | Tommy Trampp |
| 162k | USS Hamilton (Destroyer No. 141) and USS Claxton (Destroyer No. 140) on the building ways at Mare Island, 16 July 1918. | Darryl Baker |
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714k | Hamilton (Destroyer No. 141) going down the ways at Mare Island Navy Yard on 15 January 1919.
MINY photo 4513-1-1919, from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum | Darryl Baker |
| 177k | Mare Island Navy Yard, California, View looking south along the quay wall from Material Stores, to the north of the ferry slip, in mid-1919. The destroyers fitting out at left are, from outboard to inboard: USS Hamilton (Destroyer No. 141); USS Claxton (Destroyer No. 140); and USS Kennison (Destroyer No. 138). Collection of William H. Topley.
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 74060, courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1971. | Robert Hurst |
| 126k | Bow view of USS Hamilton (Destroyer No. 141) with USS Claxton (Destroyer No. 140) outboard at Mare Island, 01 July 1919. | Darryl Baker |
| 139k | Stern view of USS Hamilton (Destroyer No. 141) with USS Claxton (Destroyer No. 140) outboard at Mare Island, 01 July 1919. | Darryl Baker |
| 115k | Panoramic photograph of the Division's ships, taken by O.A.Tunnell in San Diego Harbour, California, probably on 14 August 1920. The ships are, from left to right: USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Ward (DD-139); USS Boggs (DD-136); and USS Hamilton (DD-141).
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 106144-A. The image is copied from the original print for Photo # NH106144, donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008 | Robert Hurst |
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195k | Red Lead Row, San Diego Destroyer Base, California. Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Ships present are identified as:
(left to right, in the right diagonal row): Stansbury (DD-180); MacKenzie (DD-175); Renshaw (DD-176); Howard (DD-179); Gillis (DD-260); Tingey (DD-272); McLanahan (DD-264); Swasey (DD-273); Morris (DD-271); Bailey (DD-269); Tattnall (DD-125); Breese (DD-122); Radford (DD-120); Aaron Ward (DD-132) -- probably; Ramsey (DD-124); Montgomery (DD-121); and Lea (DD-118).
(left to right, in the middle diagonal row): Wickes (DD-75); Thornton (DD-270); Meade (DD-274); Crane (DD-109); Evans (DD-78); McCawley (DD-276); Doyen (DD-280); Elliot (DD-146); Henshaw (DD-278); Moody (DD-277); Meyer (DD-279); Sinclair (DD-275); Turner (DD-259); Philip (DD-76); Hamilton (DD-141); Boggs (DD-136); Claxton (DD-140); Ward (DD-139); Hazelwood (DD-107) or Kilty (DD-137); Kennison (DD-138); Jacob Jones (DD-130); Aulick (DD-258); Babbitt (DD-128); Twiggs (DD-127); and Badger (DD-126).
(left to right, in the left diagonal row): Shubrick (DD-268); Edwards (DD-265); Palmer (DD-161); Welles (DD-257); Mugford (DD-105); Upshur (DD-144); Greer (DD-145); Wasmuth (DD-338); Hogan (DD-178); O'Bannon (DD-177); and -- possibly -- Decatur (DD-341).
(Nested alongside wharf in left center, left to right): Prairie (AD-5); Buffalo (AD-8); Trever (DD-339); and Perry (DD-340). Minesweepers just astern of this group are Partridge (AM-16) and Brant (AM-24). Nearest ship in the group of destroyers at far left is Dent (DD-116). The others with her are unidentified.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 42539 | Robert Hurst |
| 27k | Circa 1930's, location unknown. | Marc Piché |
| 131k | USS Hamilton (DD-141), At anchor, circa the 1930s.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 67681, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969 | Robert Hurst |
| 159k | USS Hamilton (DD-141) in port, circa the 1930s.
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107422 | Robert Hurst |
| 115k | USS Hamilton (DD-141), Underway while employed in ordnance tests during the 1930s. Note that a torpedo tube has been installed in place of her forward 4"/50 gun.
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107421 | Robert Hurst |
| 92k | USS Hamilton (DD 141) departing Mare Island in June 1930. The two radio towers (450 feet high) on the right side of photos are two of the five such towers constructed at Mare Island in the 1920's. Shipyard journals indicate Hamilton was only at the yard from 06 March to 03 June 1930 after she was commissioned. | Jon Burdett/Darryl Baker |
| 152k | USS Hamilton (DD-141), Underway in New York Harbor, circa 1939-1940. Her forward boiler has been replaced with stabilization tanks for anti-rolling tests, leaving her with only three smokestacks.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 107423-KN, color-tinted black & white photograph. Donation of the Lincoln County Museum, North Platte, Nebraska, 2010 | Robert Hurst |
USS Hamilton (DMS-18)
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109k | Undated, Seen here in her DMS configuration. | - |
