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DESTROYER ARCHIVE |
80 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
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| 47k | Robert Edwin Peary, born at Cresson, Penn., 6 May 1856, was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Navy 26 October 1881. In addition to his Arctic explorations, he was in charge of the Nicaragua Canal survey 1887–1888. He invented a type of tolling lock gates for the canal. His first Arctic expedition was in 1886 and on his eighth expedition he became the first man to reach the North Pole over the ice, arriving 6 April 1909, following a final dash covering 130 miles in five days. He was promoted to Rear Admiral and given the thanks of Congress by a special act of 30 March 1911. Rear Admiral Peary received honors from numerous scientific societies of Europe and America for his Arctic explorations and discoveries and wrote several books on his experience in the polar regions. He died in Washington, D.C., 20 February 1920. Photo ID: pers0028, NOAA People Collection. | Bill Gonyo | |
| 60k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 36k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 73k | Undated, location unknown. | Joe Radigan | |
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47k | Undated, Stewart (DD 224) starboard side to tender with sister destroyers Pope (DD 225), Pillsbury (DD 227), Ford (DD 228), Truxton (DD 229), and Peary (DD 226) nested outboard. The tender is almost certainly the USS Whitney (AD-4). | Joe Radigan | |
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59k | Undated, location unknown. Photo by Grafton Thornton. | Kevin Thornton | |
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81k | Undated, location unknown. | David Buell | |
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75k | Taken June 1933 from the breakwater in Chifoo of the USS Black Hawk (AD-9) with the USS Bulmer (DD-222), USS Pillsbury (DD-227), USS Pope (DD-225), USS Ford (DD-228), USS Edsall (DD-219) and USS Peary (DD-226) alongside. | John N. Egeland, Jr. | |
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62k | Probably Darwin harbor, New Years 1942. | David Wright | |
| 97k | Darwin Harbor February 19 1942, from "Pictorial History of Australia at War 39-45", 5 Volumes, 1959 printing. | Adrian K | |
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50k | Memorial to the Peary showing her deck gun and plaque listed the crewmembers lost, taken in Darwin Australia August 2001 by SK2(SW) Gless during a port call on USS CHOSIN CG-65. | SK2(SW) Gless | |
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24k | As above, closeup of the plaque. | SK2(SW) Gless | |
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42k | As above, closeup of the gun. | SK2(SW) Gless | |
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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