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63k | Charles Flint Putnam was born in Freeport, Illinois, 01 December 1854 and entered the Naval Academy at the age of 14. Upon his request at graduation in 1873, he was ordered to the Far East in Kearsarge, serving in that vessel with the Asiatic Squadron until 1875. Master Putnam was stationed at San Francisco in 1876 and was attached to schoolship Jamestown in 1877–78. In 1879 he joined the Coast Survey steamer Hassler in the North Pacific. Putnam volunteered in 1881 for service in Rodgers, fitted out to search for Jeanette, which had been lost in the Arctic on an expedition to reach the North Pole. When Rodgers burned at St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, 30 November 1881, Putnam took supplies to the survivors on dog sledges. On his return to his depot at Cape Serdze, he missed his way in a blinding snow storm 10 January 1882, drifted out to sea on an ice-floe and was never heard from again. | Daniel Dunham |
USS Putnam (DD-287)
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495k | Bethlehem Ship Building's Victory Destroyer Plant at Squantum, MA, 18 November 1919. USS Lardner (Destroyer No. 286) to the left and USS Putnam (Destroyer No. 287) to the right. The progress sign on the right also lists USS Breck and Isherwood as fitting out: these may have been outdoors. Note the "Coal shortage" sign and the overhead crane.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 43165 | Daniel Dunham |
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166k | USS Putnam (Destroyer No. 287) at Boston, Massachusetts, December 1919. Panoramic photograph, probably taken by J.C. Crosby, 11 Portland Street, Boston. Another destroyer is hauled out of the water on the marine railway in the immediate background. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Crosby Collection.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 105326 | Paul Rebold |
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216k | Circa 1920, location unknown. Note her name printed on the side, just below midships gun. Photo from the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler. Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, Forrest Knolls, Maryland, 1973.
Naval History & Hertiage Command photo NH 77279 | Daniel Dunham |
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45k | RPPC of Putnam moored, location unknown, circa 1920. | Dave Wright |
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338k | Circa the middle or later 1920s, location unknown. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 84207 | Daniel Dunham/Robert Hurst |
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163k | Putnam moored at Boston Navy Yard alongside an unidentified floating machine shop, 07 May 1928.
Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library, identifier cn69m592d | Mike Mohl/Ed Zajkowski |
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230k | Undated, but almost certainly same time and location as above.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 70863 | Daniel Dunham |
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USAT Teapa |
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111k | Undated wartime picture of USAT Teapa tied up dockside, location unknown. Teapa was one of three former Navy "four-piper" destroyers in banana-boat service that were acquired early in the war for running the Japanese blockade of the Philippines, but they were all too late arriving in the Pacific. The two other ships were lost during the war, but Teapa survived to return to the banana trade.
Mariners Museum photo from "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II" by David H. Grover. | Robert Hurst |
Commercial Service
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812k | Teapa unloading bananas at Miami, late 1940s.
US Naval Institute photo 1935891 | John Spivey |
