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[1] [2]	56k 129k	Loveman Noa was born 5 October 1878 at Chattanooga, Tenn. Appointed to the Naval Academy as a midshipman 5 September 1896, he graduated in June 1900, and was ordered to the Asiatic station in gunboat Mariveles. The morning of 26 October 1901 Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from Mariveles in a small boat to watch for craft engaged in smuggling contraband from the island of Leyte to Samar. When ready to return to Mariveles, they found the wind and the tide against them. As the boat was taking on water, they put into a small cove on the island of Samar. While scouting the adjacent jungle, Noa, was attacked and stabbed four times by Filipino insurgents. He died before aid could reach him. [1] Portrait of Naval Cadet David Bernard Loveman Noa. [2] Commemorative plaque at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD erected by the Class of 1900 in Memorial Hall.		Bill Gonyo
	38k	Undated, Shanghai, China.		Robert M. Cieri
	125k	Undated, location unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	86k	Undated, USS Noa, at anchor on the Yangtze River, China. Another destroyer's mast appears over Noa's stern. Photo US Navy Photographic Center. Photo from "Gunboats and Marines: The United States Navy in China, 1925-1928" by bernard D. Cole.		Robert Hurst
	35k	Undated, location unknown. Courtesy of www.timepassagesnostalgia.com.		Tom Kerman
	73k	Launching of Noa (DD-343) and Hulbert (DD-342), Norfolk Navy Yard. USN photo.		Joe Radigan
	183k	Launching presentation case presented to Mrs. Albert Morehead wife, she was the sister of Midshipman Loveman Noa.		Terry Walker
	76k	Photo #: NH 105312. USS Noa (DD-343) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 11 February 1921. Panoramic photograph, taken by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Paul Rebold
	150k	Dressed with flags at Shanghai, China, while celebrating the Fourth of July 1927.		Curt Clark, The Four Stack APD Veterans/Robert Hurst
	72k	Circa 1930's, location unknown.		Marc Piché
	95k	USS Noa (DD-343), in San Diego Harbour, California, about 1930. Destroyer USS Kane (DD-235) is in the background. Photo US Navy Photographic Center. Photo from "Gunboats and Marines: The United States Navy in China, 1925-1928" by bernard D. Cole.		Robert Hurst
	60k	Philadelphia April 1940, fitted with a seaplane which nested just forward of the after deckhouse, replacing the after torpedo tubes. At the same time a boom for lifting the aircraft was stepped in place of the mainmast.		-
	112k	Circa 1941, location unknown. Camouflage pattern Measure 14.		Gerd Matthes

LTJG Valentin Hixon Schaeffer    Feb 15 1921 - Jul 8 1921 (Later RADM)
CDR Robert Alden Dawes    Jul 8 1921 - Dec 8 1921
CDR Robert Alfred (Fuzzy) Theobald    Dec 8 1921 - ? (Later RADM)
CDR Roy Campbell Smith Jr.    1924 - ?
LCDR Stuart Augustine Maher    Dec 22 1928 - ?
LCDR Woodbury Esborne MacKay    ? 1932 - Nov 11 1934
(Decommissioned Nov 11 1934 - Apr 1 1940)
As the APD-24
LCDR Rae Emmett Arison    Apr 1 1940 - 1941
LCDR Ernest Sidney Lewis Goodwin    1941 - Mar 11 1942
LCDR Bosquet Neill Wev    Mar 11 1942 - Oct 1 1942
LCDR William Young Allen Jr.    Oct 1 1942 - May 1943
LCDR Thomas Dana McGrath    May 1943 - Aug 1943
LCDR Henry Wallace Boud    Aug 1943 - Sep 12 1944