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| No Photo Available | - | Samuel Hambleton was born in 1777 in Talbot County, Md. Entering the Navy as a Purser 6 December 1806, he served as Acting Lieutenant in Lawrence during the battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry commended Hambleton for gallant conduct in encouraging his men and personally working a gun until severely wounded. Until 1832 Purser Hambleton served actively in the Navy, attached to Java and Columbus during Mediterranean cruises and to John Adams and Erie in the West Indies. With the exception of a tour of duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1843 to 1845, Hambleton remained on leave or waiting order from 1832 until his death 17 January 1851 in Talbot County. | Robert M. Cieri | |
| USS Hambleton (DD-455) |
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| 66k | Undated, location unknown. National Archives photo BS 54741. | Joe Radigan | |
| 67k | Souvenir button of the launching of the USS Hambleton (DD-455) and USS Rodman (DD-456) on September 26 1941. Courtesy of www.timepassagesnostalgia.com. | Tom Kerman | |
| 181k | USS Hambleton (DD-455) and USS Rodman (DD-456) dual-launching, at Kearney, New Jersey, 26 September 1941. Source Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 50095. | Mike Green | |
| 177k | USS Hambleton (DD-455) photographed at the time of her trials, circa late 1941. Note that the shields of her 5"/38 guns have not yet been installed. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 107298. | Robert Hurst | |
 Detail views of USS Hambleton at Brooklyn Navy Yard in the winter of 1942, getting ready for sea. Photos by George Strock, Life Magazine. Used for educational and non-commercial use. | John Chiquoine | |||
| 77k | USS Sangamon (ACV-26) steams with her escort, USS Hambleton (DD-455), en route to Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, during November 1942. USN, courtesy Stan Piet. From "Carrier Air War in Original Color," by Robert Lawson and Barrett Tillman. | Robert Hurst | |
| 119k | Undated but probably a view of the U-boat torpedo damage sustained on November 11 1942 while in French Morocco. | - | |
| 198k | Broadside view of torpedo damage amidships to USS Hambleton (DD-455), received off Fedala, Morocco, on 11 November 1942. Photographed from USS Chenango (ACV-26), at Casablanca, on 16 November 1942. Note torpedo tubes. Source: United States National Archives, Photo No. 80-G-31596. | Mike Green | |
| 119k | George Clymer (APA-27) moored pierside at Casablanca inboard of Hambleton (DD-455). The destroyer had been torpedoed amidships off Fedala, Morocco, 11 November 1942. Other ships present are Henry T. Allen (AP-30), at left, and the French merchant ship De La Salle, at right. US National Archives photo # 80-G-21886, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. | Gary Priolo | |
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Effects of being torpedoed amidships off Fedala, Morocco, 11 November 1942 | Ed Zajkowski | |||
| 165k | July 1943, Hambleton as seen from the USS Wilkes (DD-441). From the collection of William J. Mosher located at the National Destroyermens Museum housed aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850). | Ed Zajkowski | |
LCDR James Bernhardt Hogle Dec 27 1942 - ? As the DMS-20 LCDR Arthur Henry Berndtson Feb 1946 - Aug 1946 LCDR William Alexander Robie ? 1952 - ? LCDR George W. Kingston Jul 1954 - ?
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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