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	90k	Photo #: NH 47915. John Mayrant (1762-1836) who, as a Midshipman serving under John Paul Jones in Continental Ship Bonhomme Richard, led the attacking party that captured HMS Serapis on 23 September 1779. Minature portrait, photographed circa 1927, when it was in the possession of the Simons Family of Charleston, South Carolina. Courtesy of Mr. Aiken Simons, of the DuPont Company, 1927. U.S . Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	98k	Undated, location unknown.		David Buell
	171k	USS Mayrant (DD-402) and USS Trippe (DD-403) on May 14 1938 at Boston Navy Yard launching. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library.		Ed Zajkowski
	35k	Photo #: NH 67631, USS Mayrant (DD-402) photographed in 1939-1940. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	71k	Photo #: NH 101669, USS Mayrant (DD-402) at anchor with painters over the side, circa 1939-1941. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	65k	Photo #: NH 101670, USS Mayrant (DD-402) at anchor with painters over the side, circa 1939-1941. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	93k	Photo #: NH 60291, USS Mayrant (DD-402) escorting President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his summer 1940 inspection of East Coast defenses. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	108k	USS Mayrant (DD-402) leaving Miami, Florida, while escorting President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his summer 1940 inspection of East Coast defences (USN Photo No 60292).		Robert Hurst
	75k	Circa 1942, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	157k	August 6 1942, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	97k	Photo #: 80-G-30422, North African Invasion, November 1942 a salvo from the French El Hank Battery misses USS Mayrant (DD-402) during the Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942. Photographed from USS Augusta (CA-31). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.		Tony Cowart
	55k	Norfolk 1942.		Marc Piché
	98k	Port side bomb damage to the USS Mayrant (DD-402) from German Luftwaffe planes on July 26, 1943. The ship is in a dry-dock at Malta, and the photo is looking forward. Source: Navy Department Library, Destroyer Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage Report; War Damage Report No. 51.		Mike Green
	98k	Port side amidships view of the USS Mayrant (DD-402)showing completion of temporary repairs at Malta. The ship is being prepared to steam to the Charleston Navy Yard for a refit and permanent repairs. Source: Navy Department Library, Destroyer Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage Report; War Damage Report No. 51.		Mike Green
	100k	Starboard side hull view of the amidships temporary patch installed on the USS Myrant (DD-402) at Malta. The patch is approximately double the size of the damaged hull area. Source: Navy Department Library, Destroyer Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage Report; War Damage Report No. 51.		Mike Green
	379k	USS Mayrant (DD-402) bomb damage diagram from July 26, 1943 off Palermo. Source: Navy Department Library: Destroyer Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage Report; War Damage Report No. 51.		Mike Green
	54k	USS Mayrant (DD-402) tied up dockside at Palermo. Photo from "United States Destroyer Operations in World War II" by Theodore Roscoe. Thanks to Dave Schroeder and John Chiquoine who identified her and supplied the following text. After bomb damage on 26 July 1943 she was towed to Palermo and remained into 9 August 1943. There is no internet evidence that her division sisters tied up in Palermo, suggesting that this is an incidental view of Mayrant.		Robert Hurst
The Mayrant at Charleston April 27 1944.				Mike Mohl

LCDR Edwin Ashby Taylor    Sep 19 1939 - 1941
CDR Charles Clifford Hartman    Apr 4 1941 - Sep 30 1942
CDR Edward Keith Walker    Sep 30 1942 - Aug 24 1943 (Later RADM)
LCDR Otto Axel Scherini    Aug 24 1943 - Sep 7 1945
LCDR Douglas Francis Chamberlin Jr.    Sep 7 1945 - Apr 13 1946
LCDR Marion Hugo Buaas    Apr 13 1946 - Aug 28 1946

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