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	17k	Charles Vernon Gridley was born 24 November 1844 in Logansport, Ind., and was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1860. Reporting for duty with his class in September 1863, Gridley joined the sloop-of-war Oneida with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and distinguished himself with Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay 5 August 1864. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1867 and Commander in 1882, he spent the next 30 years at various stations around the world, including a tour as instructor at the Naval Academy. Captain Gridley took command of Olympia, Admiral Dewey's famous flagship, 27 April 1898, a post which he held despite failing health during the Battle of Manila Bay 1 May 1898. It was that morning that Dewey gave his famous command: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," immortalizing the doughty captain. After the destruction of the Spanish squadron and the capture of Manila, Gridley was obliged to leave his command because of his health, and died en route to the United States at Kobe, Japan, 25 May 1898.		Bill Gonyo
	65k	Undated, location unknown.		Barry Mathews
	90k	Undated, location unknown.		Sanford F. Delano
	49k	Undated, World War II era.		-
	59k	Undated, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	72k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	129k	Launching December 1 1936.		Dale Hargrave
	136k	Official trials, Rockland, Me., May 11 1937 1:55pm, 7.77 knots North.		Ed Zajkowski
	143k	Official trials, Rockland, Me., May 11 1937 3:14pm, 14.18 knots North.		Ed Zajkowski
	142k	May 12 1937, Bethlehem Steel, Rockland, Me.		Ed Zajkowski
	68k 70k	Tobacco card issued by "John Player and Sons" in the U.K. in 1939 and came from a series entited "Modern Naval Craft".		Tommy Trampp
	49k	USS Gridley (DD-380) at anchor, circa the later 1930s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. Source Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 67719.		Barry Mathews/Robert Hurst/Tommy Trampp
	150k	USS Gridley (DD-380), circa 1944-1945, photographed by Photographer’s Mate 2/Class Paul D. Guttman from the deck of an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Western Pacific. The carrier was one of the following Yorktown, Hornet, Belleau Wood or Fanshaw Bay.		Robert Guttman

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CDR Jesse Hogan Motes Jr.    Feb 8 1943 - May 21 1944
CDR Philip Decatur Quirk    May 21 1944 - Nov 1 1944
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