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	59k	Daniel Todd Patterson was born on Long Island, New York, 6 March 1786. As acting midshipman, he joined sloop of war Delaware, 11 June 1799, to cruise against French privateers and warships in the West Indies. On close of the Quasi-War with France, he resumed nautical studies, then had blockade duty off Tripoli in famed Constellation and Philadelphia. He fell prisoner upon capture of Philadelphia 13 October 1803 and remained a captive of the Barbary pirates until American victory over Tripoli in 1805. Upon returning home, he spent much of his following years on station at New Orleans where he took command after the outbreak of the War of 1812. On 16 September 1814, Patterson raided the base of the pirate Jean Laffite at Barataria Bay, La., capturing six schooners and other small craft. In that same month he refused Andrew Jackson’s request to send his few naval units to Mobile Bay where Patterson knew they would be bottled up by a superior British fleet. Foreseeing British designs against New Orleans almost two months before their attack, Patterson, not Jackson, was the first to prepare to defend the city. The victory resulted as much from his foresight and preparations as from Jackson’s able fighting. His little fleet delayed the enemy until reinforcements arrived, then gave artillery support in defense of the entrenchments from which Jackson was never driven. Patterson, highly commended by Jackson, received a note o f thanks from Congress, and was promoted to Captain 28 February 1815. Patterson remained on the southern stations until 1824 when he became fleet captain and commander of flagship Constitution in Commodore John Rodger’s Mediterranean Squadron. Returning home in 1828, he was appointed one of the three Navy commissioners. He commanded the Mediterranean Squadron, 1832-1836. He took command of the Washington Navy Yard in 1836, an office he held until his death at Wilmington, N.J., 25 August 1839. Photo #: NH 43178. Captain Daniel Todd Patterson, U.S. Navy, (1786-1839) portrait in oils by John Wesley Jarvis. Courtesy of Major S.A.W. Patterson, USMC (Retired). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart/Robert M. Cieri
	86k	Photo #: 111-SC-7065. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) fitting out at the William Cramp and Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 July 1911. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Tony Cowart
	72k	Photo #: NH 99626, pre World War I, location unknown. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	55k	Photo #: NH 100401. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) underway, prior to World War I. Photographed by Waterman. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	59k	Photo #: NH 99258. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) underway, circa 1912. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	48k	Newspaper clipping from the New York Times dated September 5 1915.		Michael Mohl
	51k	Photo #: NH 82571. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) underway, circa 1916. Halftone reproduction, copied from the book "Our Navy in the War", by Lawrence Perry, 1922. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	76k	Photo #: NH 66330. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) in a harbor, prior to World War I. Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	82k	Photo #: NH 102654. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) off Cape May, New Jersey, while painted in disruptive camouflage during World War I. Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	96k	Photo #: NH 98604-C. USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36) with several other destroyers in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, circa spring 1919. Cropped from a panoramic photograph (Photo # NH 98604) taken by Keystone Photo Studios, 817 So. Broad St., Philadelphia. Collection of Eugene Bennett, donated by his daughter, Jene B. Hart, September 1988. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	495k	Newspaper clipping from the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger of July 19 1919 showing the USS Patterson (DD-36), USS Burrows (DD-29), USS Ammen (DD-35) and USS Beale (DD-40).		Michael Mohl
	135k	Philadelphia Nay Yard with the Reserve Fleet, circa 1920.		Michael Mohl
	210k	USS Patterson in dry dock from my father's collection, LT John H. Reeder, USCG.		John Reeder
	67k	Circa 1928 on Coast Guard service, location unknown.		Manuel Tafoya Sr

LCDR John McClane Luby    Oct 11 1911 - Jun 24 1912 Later RADM)
LT Harold Raynsford Stark    Jun 24 1912 - Apr 15 1914 (Later ADM)
LT John Henry Newton Jr.    Apr 15 1914 - Apr 13 1917 (Later VADM)
LCDR William Reynolds Purnell    Apr 13 1917 - Apr 24 1918 (Later RADM)
CAPT Thomas Andrew Shanley (USCG) Apr 24 1918 - Jul 15 1918
LCDR Warren Case Nixon    Jul 15 1918 - Jan 1 1919
Under Coast Guard command
LCDR Michael J. Ryan (USCG)    Nov 24 1924 - Aug 1926 (Later RADM)
LCDR Earl Griffith Rose (USCG)    Dec 1927 - Apr 1 1930 (Later RADM)

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