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DESTROYER ARCHIVE |
35 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
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| No Photo Available | - | Jonathan Meredith was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania about 1772. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on 6 June 1803 and was promoted to sergeant 1 August of that same year. During an engagement in the harbor of Tripoli on 3 August 1805, Sergeant Meredith saved the life of Lt. John Trippe of Vixen, who with a party of nine men had boarded a Tripolitan ship. Heavily outnumbered, the boarding party fought a fierce hand-to-hand combat, in which Trippe was severely wounded; Meredith protected him from what would have been the final blow. Four days later Meredith was killed in the explosion of Gunboat No. 3 during a similar attack against the Tripolitans. | Robert M. Cieri | |
| 154k | Artist's conception of the Meredith as built in a cutaway view by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource. | Navy Yard Associates | |
| 133k | USS Meredith (DD-726) Launching, at the Bath Iron Works shipyard, Bath, Maine, 21 December 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Fred Weiss | |
| 89k | As above, from the collection of Arne Rasmussen's. The arrow points to his GQ position. Note that the date on the image shows 1944 while it should read 1943. | William Rasmussen | |
| 92k | USS Meredith (DD-726) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 29 March 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photograph Collection, Annapolis, Maryland. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Fred Weiss/Ernest Graham | |
| 110k | USS Meredith (DD-726) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 29 March 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photograph Collection, Annapolis, Maryland. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Fred Weiss | |
| 115k | Norfolk, VA March 31 1944. | Marc Piché/Ernest Graham | |
| 157k | USS Meredith (DD-726) Underway at sea, 16 April 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photograph Collection, Annapolis, Maryland. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Fred Weiss | |
| 65k | Series of 4 photos of the loss of the Meredith, this one appears to be after striking the mine off Utah Beach on June 8 1944. | James D. Bass, Jr, | |
| 55k | This and the next two images show the Meredith going down after German aircraft hits near her opened her seams and she broke in half on June 9 1944. | James D. Bass, Jr, | |
| 69k | As above. | James D. Bass, Jr, | |
| 72k | As above. | James D. Bass, Jr, | |
| 107k | Three views of the aftermath of the mine explosion and subsequent German Air bomb damage. Ernest was in the group that attempted to salvage the Meredith before she broke in half. After abandoning the ship for the second time he saw her sink from a Higgins Boat that had rescued the salvage crew. | Ernest C. Graham GM3c | |
| 83k | As above. | Ernest C. Graham GM3c | |
| 58k | As above. | Ernest C. Graham GM3c | |
| 246k | Map showing the location of the loss of the USS Meredith (DD-726), USS Corry (DD-463) and USS Glennon (DD-620) during the first 4 days of the D-Day invasion, June 6 - 10, 1944. Chart from the June 2002 edition of National Geographic. | Joe Radigan | |
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CDR George Knuepfer Mar 14 1944 - Jun 9 1944
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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