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[1] [2]	56k 129k	David Bernard Loveman Noa was born at Chattanooga, Tennessee, 05 October 1878. Appointed to the Naval Academy as a midshipman 05 September 1896, he graduated in June 1900, and was ordered to the Asiatic station in gunboat Mariveles. The morning of 26 October 1901 Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from Mariveles in a small boat to watch for craft engaged in smuggling contraband from the island of Leyte to Samar. When ready to return to Mariveles, they found the wind and the tide against them. As the boat was taking on water, they put into a small cove on the island of Samar. While scouting the adjacent jungle, Noa was attacked and stabbed four times by Filipino insurgents. He died before aid could reach him. [1] Portrait of Naval Cadet David Bernard Loveman Noa. [2] Commemorative plaque at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD erected by the Class of 1900 in Memorial Hall.		Bill Gonyo
USS Noa (DD-343)
	38k	Undated, Shanghai, China.		Robert M. Cieri
	125k	Undated, location unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	35k	Undated, location unknown. Courtesy of www.timepassagesnostalgia.com.		Tom Kerman
	73k	Launching of Noa (Destroyer No. 343) and Hulbert (Destroyer No. 342) at Norfolk Navy Yard, 28 June 1919. USN photo.		Joe Radigan
Launching of the Hulbert and Noa, 28 June 1919.				Marcus Robbins, NNSY historian and archivist
	183k	Launching presentation case presented to Mrs. Albert Morehead (Bianca Noa Morehead), the sister of Midshipman Noa.		Terry Walker
	76k	USS Noa (DD-343) moored at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 11 February 1921. She would be commissioned four days later. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 105312, panoramic photograph, taken by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970		Paul Rebold
	645k	Noa (DD-343) at anchor on the Yangtze River in the early 1920s. Peary (DD-226) is visible astern. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 44864		Robert Hurst
	169k	Four American destroyers: USS Preble (DD-345), USS Noa (DD-343), unidentified, and USS Pruitt (DD-347) moored at Saigon, French Indochina, 1926.		Frederick J. Moisson
	64k	Dressed with flags at Shanghai, China, while celebrating the Fourth of July 1927. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 90000		Curt Clark, The Four Stack APD Veterans/Robert Hurst
	72k	Circa 1930's, location unknown.		Marc Piché
	943k	USS Noa (DD-343) underway in San Diego Harbor, California, about 1930. Destroyer USS Kane (DD-235) and another destroyer (probably Fox (DD-234)) are moored in the left background, the hangars of NAS North Island in the center, and Wright (AV-1) in the right background. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 73276		Robert Hurst
	60k	Philadelphia April 1940, fitted with a Curtiss SOC seaplane which nested just forward of the after deckhouse, replacing the after torpedo tubes. At the same time a boom for lifting the aircraft was stepped in place of the mainmast.		-
	531k	Noa (DD-343) moored at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 02 May 1941. She appears to be painted in Measure 14 camouflage, though with her prominent white hull number retained. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 50278		Gerd Matthes
Memorabilia
	66k	Ship's patch.		Don McGrogan
	56k	Ship's patch.		Don McGrogan

LTJG Valentin Hixon Schaeffer    Feb 15 1921 - Jul 8 1921 (Later RADM)

CDR Robert Alden Dawes    Jul 8 1921 - Dec 8 1921

CDR Robert Alfred (Fuzzy) Theobald    Dec 8 1921 - Jun 20 1925 (Later RADM)

CDR Roy Campbell Smith Jr.    Jun 20 1925 - Jul 10 1927

LT Benjamin Franklin Staud    Jul 10 1927 - Oct 15 1927 (XOIC) 

LT George Douglas Morrison    Oct 15 1927 - Jan 6 1928 

LCDR Edgar Arden Logan    Jan 6 1928 - Oct 8 1928

LT Donald McKenzie Weld    Oct 8 1928 - Dec 22 1928 (XOIC)

LCDR Stuart Augustine Maher    Dec 22 1928 - May 25 1931

LCDR Woodbury Esborne MacKay    May 25 1931 - Nov 11 1934

(Decommissioned Nov 11 1934 - Apr 1 1940)

As the APD-24

LCDR Ernest Sidney Lewis Goodwin    Apr 1 1940 - Dec 1 1940

LCDR Rae Emmett Arison    Dec 1 1940 - Jan 5 1942

LCDR Bosquet Neill Wev    Jan 5 1942 - Oct 1 1942

LCDR William Young Allen Jr.    Oct 1 1942 - May 1 1943

LCDR Thomas Dana McGrath    May 1 1943 - Aug 1 1943

LCDR Henry Wallace Boud    Aug 1 1943 - Sep 12 1944