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	72k	James Hooker Strong was born in Canandaigua, NY on 26 April 1814. On February 2, 1829, while a student in the Polytechnic College at Chittenango, NY, he was appointed a Midshipman in the United States Navy. He made his first cruise on the Brazil station in Lexington from 1833 to 1835. After various cruises, he commanded the store ship Relief in 1859. Strong was promoted to Commander in April 1861 and commanded Mohawk and Flag in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1861 and 1862, and Monongahela in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron from1863 to 1865. At the Battle of Mobile Bay, he was the first to ram the Confederate ironclad Tennessee and received high commendation for his initiative and valor. Strong served at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1866 and 1867 and later commanded Canandaigua in the Mediterranean Squadron in 1869 and 1870. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in Sept. 1873 and served as Commander-in-Chief of the South Atlantic Squadron from 1873 to 1875. The U.S.S. Strong (DD467) was the first U.S. Naval Vessel to bear the name of Admiral Strong and was lost in the South Pacific in 1943.		Bill Gonyo
USS Strong (DD-758)
	115k	Undated, location unknown.		Jack Courtney ET2c USNR
	52k	Undated, location unknown.		Jack Courtney ET2c USNR
	107k	USS Strong (DD 758) date and place unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	314k 150k	Undated post card.		Mike Brock
	70k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	72k	USS Strong (DD-758) at anchor off Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco, California, on 28 May 1945. Note that she was completed with the after set of torpedo tubes replaced by a 40 mm quadruple mount. Strong is painted in Camouflage Measure 22. Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo # 19-N-91564.		Robert Hurst
	120k	Location unknown, circa 1956.		Marc Piché
	23k	April 1959.		Joe Radigan
	193k	September 20 1959, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	95k	In March-December 1962 USS Strong (DD 758) underwent her FRAM-II modernization, which comprised [close-up view]: a modified bridge (with bridge wings), modern radar (an air-search SPS-40 and a surface-search SPS-10), two triple Mk 32 torpedo tubes amidships, two Mk 25 long torpedo tubes --removed by the time the photos were taken--, [broadside view] hangar and landing pad for a DASH, new ECM systems (with antennas mounted atop the DASH hangar) and VDS. Strong retained her main battery of six 5"/38 guns (as all FRAMmed Sumners did), with a Mk 37 gun director (Mk 25 radar), and two Hedgehogs. She is seen at Barcelona, Spain, in late January 1970.		Fabio Peña
	128k	As above.		Fabio Peña
	169k	Pearl Harbor, circa May 18 1968.		© Richard Leonhardt
	143k	USS Strong (DD-758) underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on 21 May 1968. Photograph taken by PHCM Louis P. Bodine, U.S. Navy. Official U.S. Navy photo from the collections of the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 107152.		Robert Hurst
	247k	Ships Plaque		Dave Wright
	158k	Ships Patch		Jack Courtney ET2c USNR
	63k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	72k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	50k	Ship's Zippo.		Tommy Trampp
Rio Grande do Norte (D 37)
	95k	Brazilian destroyer Rio Grande Do Norte, date and location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	62k	Rio Grande Do Norte (D 37) closing to refuel from RFA Green Rover in the South Atlantic, April 1977.		Robert Hurst
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