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	48k	Nathan Goff of West Virginia was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 to fill out the unexpired term of Richard W. Thompson. He was elected to the United States Senate from West Virginia in 1884 and reelected in 1886. The former Secretary of the Navy and Senator died on 23 April 1920. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.		Bill Gonyo
	57k	Undated photos of the crew of the Goff from the collection of Barbara's father, Joseph H. Sauro, who served aboard and is at the right in the photos.		Barbara Sauro
	51k	As above.		Barbara Sauro
	137k	Undated, location unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	131k	New York Shipbuilding Corporation Shipyard, Camden, New Jersey. Eleven destroyers fitting out in the Wet Basin between Piers 3 and 4. Photo is dated 28 September 1920. Ships present are identified as (from left to right): Childs (DD-241), commissioned 22 Oct. 1920; Reuben James (DD-245), commissioned 24 Sept. 1920; McFarland (DD-237), commissioned 30 Sept. 1920; Sturtevant (DD-240), commissioned 21 Sept. 1920; Williamson (DD-244), commissioned 29 Oct. 1920; Sands (DD-243), commissioned 10 Nov. 1920; Lawrence (DD-250), commissioned 18 April 1921; Hopkins (DD-249), commissioned 21 March 1921; Bainbridge (DD-246), commissioned 9 Feb. 1921; Goff (DD-247), commissioned 19 Jan. 1921; and Barry (DD-248), commissioned 28 Dec. 1920.		Robert Hurst
	119k	Photo #: NH 57976, USS Osborne (DD-295) underway during the review of the U.S. Fleet by President Calvin Coolidge, 4 June 1927. USS Goff (DD-247) is in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	163k	Leaving the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania on 5 May 1932. Note the band playing in the lower left foreground. Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 64559.		Robert Hurst
	206k	USS Goff (DD-247) and USS Sturtevant (DD-240) at north end of Wrangle Narrows, Alaska circa 1935.		Darryl Baker
	48k	Picture from a 1936 calendar		In memory of Gordon Kenneth Delo CMM(AA) - He served aboard the Goff from 1934 to 1939. Killed in action aboard the USS Monssen in 1942. Cheryl Caruso
	160k	USS Altair (AD-11) At Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 1 October 1942. The four ships alongside are (from left to right): USS Spry (PG-64); USS Bainbridge (DD-246); USS Goff (DD-247); and Dutch minelayer/patrol vessel Jan van Brakel. Photographed from USS Pocomoke (AV-9). Note the pattern camouflage on most of these ships. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	79k	Five of the Wickes class flush deck destroyers await the scrapper´s torch at NAS Cape May, New Jersey in October of 1945. From Left; USS Greer (DD-145), USS Bainbridge (DD-246), USS Goff (DM-22 ex DD-247), USS Badger (DD-126) and USS Lea (DD-118).		Gerd Matthes

LTJG Rodman Drake DeKay    Jan 19 1921 - Oct 4 1921
LCDR Richard Stockton Field     Oct 4 1921 - 1922 
LCDR Theodore Stark Wilkinson    1922 - 1922 (Later VADM)
LCDR Elmer DeLoss Langworthy    Aug 22 1925 - ?
LCDR Francis Eliot Maynard Whiting    Jun 16 1928 - ? (Later VADM)
(Decommissioned Jan 13 1931 - Mar 2 1932)
LCDR Walter Moakler A. Wynne    Mar 2 1932 - ?
LT John Pemberton Curtis    ? 1934 - ?
LCDR Julian DuBois Wilson    ? 1935 - 1936
LCDR Horatio Gates Sickel IV    ? 1938
LCDR Noble Wayne Abrahams    ? 1939 - ?
LCDR William Jefferson Marshall    ? 1940 - Dec 1941 (Later ADM)
LCDR Olin Perry Thomas Jr.    Dec 1941 - Sep 1942
LCDR Charles Enright Weakley    Sep 1942 - 1943 (Later VADM)
LCDR Hinton Ira Smith    1943 - ?

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