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Namesake
	15k	Charles Satterlee (14 September 1875 - 26 September 1918) was an officer in the United States Coast Guard during World War I. Born in Essex, Connecticut, Satterlee was appointed a cadet in the Revenue Cutter Service on 19 November 1895. In 1908, he was assigned as supervisor of anchorages at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. This duty included command of the cutter Mackinac. In 1909, he was ordered to Tahoma, then fitting out at Baltimore, Maryland, for a cruise to the Pacific. From 1910 to 1913, he was assistant inspector of lifesaving stations; and, on 1 September 1915, he was promoted to Captain in the Coast Guard. Captain Satterlee was in command of the cutter, Tampa, when that vessel was torpedoed and sunk with all hands on 26 September 1918 in the Bristol Channel while escorting a convoy.		Bill Gonyo
USS Satterlee (DD-190)
	100k	Undated, USS Satterlee (DD-190), USS Hatfield (DD-231) and USS Breckinridge (DD-148) ad other destroyers moored at Balboa, Canal Zone.		Paul Rebold
	92k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	39k	Launching plaque, 21 December 1918.		Ron Reeves
0519009	149k	Circa 1920, location unknown.		Dave Wright
	78k	Circa 1920, location unknown.		Jim Flynn
	128k	Circa 1920's, location unknown.		Alan Butler
	96k	USS Satterlee (Destroyer No. 190/DD-190) in port, circa 1920-1922. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 63143.		Robert Hurst
On British Service
HMS Belmont (ex-USS Satterlee, DD-190) commissioned into RN at Halifax, NS on 8 October 1940, and sailed for Devonport and refit on 15 October 1940, arriving 28 October 1940. Refit was completed 25 November 1940, but trials and defects delayed the ship at Devonport and Milford Haven so that she did not arrive at Scapa Flow for work up until 5 January 1941. Further defects and a collision off the Isle of Man 22 March 1941 put her into the repairer's hands at Liverpool after escorting only one convoy and she did not become fully operational with 3rd Escort Group until 20 August 1941, ten and a half months after transfer at Halifax. She remained based at Liverpool, escorting convoys in the Western Approaches, until 30 November 1941 when she sailed for St John's, NF to take up local escort duty there. Service in Canadian waters was brief for, while escorting her third convoy from St John's (troop convoy NA2) she was torpedoed on 31 January 1942 by U81 in position 42.02N 57.18W, and sank with the loss of her entire crew. (History thanks to Robert Hurst)
	77k	The 'Town' class destroyer HMS Belmont (ex-USS Satterlee, DD-190) almost stopped in a calm sea in late 1941 prior to her transfer to Canadian waters.		Robert Hurst
	93k	Ship's badge.		Tommy Trampp

CDR Reed Marquette Fawell    Dec 23 1919 - Oct 22 1920

LCDR Frank L. Singluff Jr.    Oct 22 1920 - Jul 11 1922 

(Decommissioned July 11 1922 - December 18 1939)

LCDR Harold Raymond Demarest    Dec 18 1939 - Oct 8 1940

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