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Thomas Joel Maloy was born on 26 September 1906 in Portland, Oreg. He enlisted in the Navy 30 September 1926. On 13 November, in action off Guadalcanal, Chief Watertender
Maloy's ship, USS Atlanta (CL 51),was torpedoed and went dead in the water. After ordering his crew to abandon number one fireroom, Maloy remained at his station struggling
to stem the rapid flooding of the area. Compelled to leave the compartment, he proceeded to the forward engineroom to investigate conditions there. He perished in this heroic attempt to
save the ship. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism during the Guadalcanal campaign.
USS Maloy (DE 791) (1943-1965) was the first ship to be named in his honor.
(U.S. Navy photo #NH 48062, Courtesy of R. C. Maloy, Milwaukie, Oregon; from the Naval History and Heritage Command) |
Mike Smolinski
Clifton, N.J.
Navsource DE/FF/LCS
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18 August 1943: Orange, Tex. - The future USS Maloy is christened by her sponsor, Mrs. Thomas J. Maloy, widow of Chief Watertender Maloy. |
S. Dale Hargrave
Newport News, Va. |
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1947: Maloy crew portrait.
(Photo from the collection of RM2 Everett J. Jensen) |
Gary A. Jensen |
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11 June 1951: Washington, D.C. - During a brief ceremony in his office today, Rear Admiral Thorvald A. Solberg, USN, Chief of the Office of Naval Research, presented a
painting of USS Maloy (DE 791) to Lieutenant Commander John H. Geyer, (left). USS Maloy, a destroyer escort, was the last ship the recipient commanded.
Lieutenant Commander Geyer completed thirty years of service in the U.S. Navy on this date.
(U.S. Navy photo #708268 from the National Museum of U.S. Navy, Washington, D.C.) |
Mike Smolinski
Clifton, N.J.
Navsource DE/FF/LCS
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August 1952: Norfolk, Va. - USS De Long (DE 684) underway in the Norfolk OpArea.
(U.S. Navy photo #80-G-444082 from the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.)
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Rick E. Davis
Springfield, Oh. |
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Heading in or out of New London, Conn. before she got her variable depth sonar in 1956.
(U.S. Navy photo)
(Note: The description "before she got her VDS" is incorrect. The first VDS was lowered over the port side on a winch with railings on the hull. If you note the small wake about midships, it is being generated by the railing on the hull. The transducer was raised and then tilted over to rest against the boat deck so that you walked under it on the port side. We were never able to develop a chain to keep the transducer beneath the ship so we couldn't get true bearings and distance. Computers solved that problem so they put it on the fantail. From: Bob Brown, a Maloy radarman, May 1951 - December 1953 ) |
J. Everett |
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1961: Maloy shown coming out past the Underwater Sound Lab at Groton, Conn. |
Jim Jackson
crewmember 1960-1963 |
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1960's: New London, Conn. - USS Maloy (EDE 791) steaming southbound on the Thames River heading for the Atlantic. She just passed under the I-95 bridge and is
approaching USS Fulton (AS 11) at the New London State Pier. Although officially homeported at the submarine base
in New London, Fulton couldn't get upriver and tended her brood at the State Pier. Note the equipment on her fantail, Maloy appears to be testing a variable depth sonar. |
Darryl Baker
PNCM, USNR (ret.)
Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum |
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undated: Photo showing Maloy near the end of her days. She spent the majority of her career as a unit of Destroyer Division 601 based at the submarine
base in New London, Conn. Her primary duty was being the test ship for the Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory in Groton, Conn.
(U.S. Navy photo) |
Mike Smolinski
Clifton, N.J.
Manager, Navsource
DE / FF / LCS Archive
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