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	48k	Photo #: NH 99078. Ensign Ralph M. Rich, USNR image cropped out of a group photograph (Photo # 80-G-464482) of the pilots of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6), taken on board USS Enterprise (CV-6) in January 1942, prior to the Marshall Islands raid. The propeller hub of a Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcat" fighter is directly behind him. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	69k	Undated, location unknown.		Marshall DuBois
	33k	Undated, location unknown.		-
	66k	Undated, location unknown.		Don Bunch, USS Rich crew member during the Korean War
	44k	Undated, USS Rich (DD-820), USS Holder (DD-819) and USS New (DD-818) of DesRon 36.		Edward H. Cleary
	66k	Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.		Mike Smolinski
	234k	Undated, location unknown.		Charles Lamm
	129k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	158k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	131k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	150k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	65k	Photo #: NH 86112. USS Rich (DD-820) off Orange, Texas, on 10 July 1946, one week after completion. Note that she was completed as a standard general purpose Gearing class destroyer with three twin 5"/38 mounts. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	160k	July 10 1946 at Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas.		Ed Zajkowski
	111k	As above.		Ed Zajkowski
	85k	1946 port visit to Venice, Italy		Robert J. Hoeppner RM3C
	40k	1946 port visit to Venice, Italy		Robert J. Hoeppner RM3C
	225k	1946 port visit to Venice, Italy		Robert J. Hoeppner RM3C
	64k	Photo #: NH 86114. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount and addition of a small mainmast and a new integrated sonar. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	63k	Photo #: NH 86113. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount and addition of a small mainmast and a new integrated sonar. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	53k	Photo #: NH 99736. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	46k	Photo #: NH 99737. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included the addition of a small mainmast. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	90k	Photo #: NH 99738. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	91k	Photo #: NH 86115. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The position of the former number two 5"/38 gun mount was covered with a plate that included a smaller mounting ring for a trainable hedgehog, not yet fitted. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	115k	USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 with a sister ship after initial conversion to a specialised ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Centre. Photo # NH 99869.		Robert Hurst
	118k	USS Rich off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947. Rest of text as above. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Centre. Photo # NH 99870.		Robert Hurst
	88k	USS Robert K. Huntington (DD-781) at anchor with the USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864) and USS Rich (DDE-820) during the the 1950s, probably in a Mediterranean port (Photo No NH 99873).		Robert Hurst
	102k	Photo #: NH 92296. USS Rich (DDE-820) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 19 May 1951 configured as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE). Note the tripod foremast with upgraded radars. Courtesy of Frank Jankowski, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	87k	Photo #: NH 99766. USS Rich (DDE-820) off the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, on 15 August 1951, while serving as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE). She now carries a trainable hedgehog forward of the bridge and has a tripod foremast with upgraded radars, but retains her original quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and 40mm anti-aircraft battery. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	107k	USS Rich (DDE-820, ex-DD) off the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, on 15 August 1951, while serving as a anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE). She now carries a trainable Hedgehog forward of the bridge and has a tripod foremast with upgraded radars, but retains her original quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and 40 mm anti-aircraft battery. Official U.S. Navy photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Centre. Photo # NH 99767.		Robert Hurst
	70k	Photo #: NH 99874. USS Rich (DDE-820) view of the bridge and the tripod foremast, with the underway watch set, during the 1950s. A portion of the ship's trainable hedgehog is visible at the bottom left. Note radar antennas and signal flags. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	356k	Photo #: NH 99871, USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950s. The destroyers are USS Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). One of the early Guppy conversion submarines is alongside to starboard. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	86k	Photo #: NH 99872, USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950s. The destroyers are USS Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	92k	1952 in Algiers, (L-R) USS Damato (DD-871), USS Holder (DD-819), USS Rich (DD-820), USS Basilone (DD-824) and USS Robert L. Wilson (DD-847).		Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR (Ret.)
	140k	At Barcelona, Spain circa 1958-1961. Photo probably taken by Galilea.		Jaume Cifre Sanchez
	98k	Circa 1960's, USS New (DD-818), USS Holder (DD-819) and USS RICH (DD-820) in Ponta Delgada, Azores.		Carlos Manuel Estrela
	82k	Photo #: NH 99768, USS Rich (DDE-820) digging into a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	86k	Photo #: NH 99769, USS Rich (DDE-820) rising out of a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961. The ship, near the end of her service as an escort destroyer (DDE), has lost her quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and possibly her 40mm anti-aircraft battery. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	113k	Photo #: NH 99770, USS Rich (DDE-820) alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) commencing underway replenishment on 28 February 1961. Messenger lines have just been passed between the two ships; fueling and highline rigs and phone distance lines will follow. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	123k	Photo #: NH 99771. USS Rich (DDE-820) alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) on 2 March 1961, possibly preparing to refuel. Note the Wasp's refueling gear rigged out for use. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	161k	USS Wasp (CVS-18) in formation with destroyers and aircraft of Anti-submarine Task Group Bravo, in the Mediterranean Sea, 19 August 1961. All escorts are Gearing-class DDEs. The planes overhead from Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 52 (CVSG-52) include ten Grumman S2F-1 Trackers and two Douglas AD-5W Skyraiders. Two Sikorsky HSS-1 Seabat helicopters are flying just above the ships. The destroyer on the far left is USS New (DDE-818), then USS Rich (DDE-820), in front is USS Robert A. Owens (DDE-827). Official U.S. Navy Photograph. Photo #: USN 1057640 now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.053.001.		Robert Hurst
	111k	Photo #: NH 99802. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed on 15 September 1963 during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard. She was nearing the end of her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	119k	Photo #: NH 99803. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed on 15 September 1963 during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard. She was nearing the end of her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	98k	Photo #: NH 99804. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed on 15 September 1963 during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard. She was nearing the end of her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. The stern of USS Chukawan (AO-100) is visible to the right. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	97k	Norfolk, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	79k	Western Mediterranean 1964. Photo by Marius BAR Photographs of Toulon, France.		Marc Piché
	90k	Photo #: NH 99805. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed in the Adriatic Sea on 29 August 1964, about a year after her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	125k	Photo #: NH 99806. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed underway circa 1964, soon after her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. This was used as the ship's publicity photo in 1965-66. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Ret.), 2004. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	63k	Photo #: NH 87852-KN. USS Rich (DD-820) anchored outside the harbor of Mogadiscio (Mogadishu), Somalia, during a 13-15 February 1966 port call. Courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Stephen S. Roberts, USNR, 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	64k	Photo #: NH 99933. USS Rich (DD-820) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967 with a DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter on deck. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	69k	Photo #: NH 99934. USS Rich (DD-820) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967 with a DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter on deck. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	73k	Photo #: NH 99937. USS Rich (DD-820) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967 with a DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter on her deck. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	112k	USS Rich (DD-820, ex-DDE) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Centre. Photo # NH 99336.		Robert Hurst
	152k	March 21 1968 photo by PH2 R. Neckel, NPC 1132952.		Ed Zajkowski
	77k	Photo #: NH 99850. USS Rich (DD-820) conducting an underway astern refueling from the merchant tanker SS Erna Elizabeth in February 1972. During this evolution, conducted during an exercise, warships of various types and nationalities refueled from a single hose trailed astern of the tanker. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	108k	Photo #: NH 99851. USS Rich (DD-820) underway probably during the 1970s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	56k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	40k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	80k	Ship's patch.		Tom Gamstetter
	105k	Photo #: NH 75796-KN. USS Rich (DDE-820) plaque of ship's insignia received in 1964. This design was probably used during the later 1950s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart

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