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90k | John B. Montgomery was born in New Jersey in 1794. He was appointed a Midshipman on 4 June 1812. He first served in the flagship Niagara in the victory of Lake Erie, September 1814. He was commissioned Lieutenant on 1 April 1818 and Commander on 9 December 1839. He commanded Naval Rendezvous, Boston in 1840. He was the commanding officer of the sloop-of-war Portsmouth of the Pacific Squadron (1845-48). He was promoted to Captain in 1853 and became Commander Pacific Squadron (1860-61). He was promoted to Commodore on 16 July 1862 and served as Commandant Boston Navy Yard (1862-63) and Commandant Navy Yard Washington (1864-65). He rose to the flag rank of Rear Admiral on 25 July 1866 and was Commandant Naval Station Sackett's Harbor, N.Y. (1867-69). Admiral Montgomery died on 25 March 1873 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death he was on the Retired List | Robert M. Cieri/Stephen P. Carlson, Boston NHP, Charlestown Navy Yard/Tommy Trampp Photo added 28 February 2022 |
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162k | Barb Rebold | |||
78k | c. 1930s Courtesy of Robert Varrill Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 78612 |
Robert Hurst | ||
99k | c. early 1941 Pearl Harbor, HI Along with three other mine craft National Archives photo |
Mike Green | ||
87k | c. 1943 Dutch Harbor, AK |
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124k | c. 1943 Pearl Harbor, HI Hoga (YT-146), assisting Montgomery Photo by Frank McHale from National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors |
Robert Hurst |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LCDR William Reynolds Purnell, USN - USNA Class of 1908 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) and two Navy Distinguished Service Medals (1942/1945) - Retired as Rear Admiral | 26 July 1918 - 4 January 1919 |
02 | LCDR John Calvin Jennings, USN - USNA Class of 1908 | 4 January 1919 - 20 January 1920 |
03 | LT Thomas Lamison Sprague, USN - USNA Class of 1918 Awarded the Navy Cross (1944), the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (1945), and two Legions of Merit with Combat "V" (1944) - Retired as Admiral | 20 January 1920 - 10 November 1920 |
04 | LT Stuart Shirley Reynolds, USN | 10 November 1920 - 28 December 1921 |
05 | CDR William Alexander Glassford, Jr., USN - Retired as Vice Admiral | 28 December 1921 - 13 March 1922 |
06 | LT Stuart Shirley Reynolds, USN | 13 March 1922 - 6 June 1922 |
07 | CDR Lee Payne Johnson, USN | 25 June 1930 - March 1932 |
08 | LCDR Lloyd Erwin Clifford, USN - USNA Class of 1917 | 21 March 1932 - 28 November 1933 |
09 | LCDR Omar Brown Earle, USN | 28 November 1933 - 15 May 1935 |
10 | LCDR William Edward Miller, USN - USNA Class of 1920 | 15 May 1935 - 20 July 1936 |
11 | LCDR Robert Raymond Ferguson, USN | 1936 - 7 December 1937 |
12 | LCDR Donald Fitzroy McLean, USN | 25 September 1939 - February 1941 |
13 | LCDR Richard Allen Guthrie, USN - USNA Class of 1925 | 2 April 1941 - 10 April 1942 |
14 | LCDR John Andrews, Jr., USN - USNA Class of 1929 | 10 April 1942 - 1 April 1943 |
15 | LCDR Dwight Lyman Moody, USN | 1 April 1943 - 1 November 1943 |
16 | LCDR Edward Herman Inman, Jr., USNR | 1 November 1943 - 23 May 1944 |
17 | LT Dan Thomas Drain, USNR | 23 May 1944 - 23 April 1945 |
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