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No Photo Available	-	Jonathan Meredith was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania about 1772. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on 6 June 1803 and was promoted to sergeant 1 August of that same year. During an engagement in the harbor of Tripoli on 3 August 1805, Sergeant Meredith saved the life of Lt. John Trippe of Vixen, who with a party of nine men had boarded a Tripolitan ship. Heavily outnumbered, the boarding party fought a fierce hand-to-hand combat, in which Trippe was severely wounded; Meredith protected him from what would have been the final blow. Four days later Meredith was killed in the explosion of Gunboat No. 3 during a similar attack against the Tripolitans.		Robert M. Cieri
	51k	Undated, location unknown.		Paul Rebold
	59k	USS Meredith (Destroyer # 165) at Boston, Massachusetts, 4 February 1919. Panoramic photograph, taken by J.C. Crosby, Naval Photographer, # 11 Portland Street, Boston.		Jim Flynn/Robert Hurst
	155k	USS Arkansas (Battleship # 33), A young woman visitor sighting one of the ship's 5"/51 guns, in New York Harbor, 23 April 1919. Note the small sub-caliber spotting rifle atop the gun barrel; splinter matresses hung over the gun; and door with porthole in the lower right. In the background are USS Jouett (Destroyer # 41), at left, and USS Meredith (Destroyer # 165). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #: NH 46317.		Robert Hurst

CDR Herbert Harlan Michael    Jan 29 1919 - Jul 24 1920
LT Francis Kendall O'Brien    Jul 24 1920 - Dec 11 1920
LT Malcolm Arnold Deans    Dec 11 1920 - Jun 28 1922

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