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To Argentina August 17 1971, renamed Admirante Domecq Garcia.| Click On Image For Full Size Image |
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| 88k | Born in New York City 18 May 1829, Daniel Lawrence Braine was appointed Midshipman in 1847. He served in Mississippi and John Adams during the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded Monticello and took part in an engagement with the rebel battery at Sewell's Point, in the first naval engagement of the war. He also took part in the attack and capture of Forts Hatteras and Clarke and engaged the enemy at Kimmekerk Woods above Cape Hatteras. Between 1873 and 1875 he commanded Juniata on its cruise to Greenland in search of the ill-fated Polaris Expedition. Rear Admiral Braine retired in May 1891 and died at Brooklyn 30 January 1898. | Bill Gonyo | |
| 77k | Artist's conception of the Braine by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource. | Navy Yard Associates | |
| 14k | Undated war time image. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 31, Design 16d. | - | |
| 40k | Undated, Modernized for the ASW role, #3 gun has been removed | - | |
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162k | Undated, location unknown. | Joe Radigan | |
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60k | Undated, location unknown. | Richard B. Kirkland | |
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45k | Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 107k | 1944 image showing Braine as she Appeared Shortly After Arriving In The South Pacific. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 150k | Damage To Braine From Shore Battery Fire At Tinian, June 14 1944 | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 140k | Transfering Wounded To New Mexico BB-40, June 14 1944 | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 73k | Braine's Profile After being Hit By Two Kamikazes Off Okinawa, May 27 1945. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 113k | Close Up Of Damage After 1st Kamikaze, Port Side 40mm Mount. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 98k | Close Up Of Damage After 1st Kamikaze, Starboard Side Looking Forward, Note The Splinter Shield has Been Completly Blow Off The Number 2 5" Gun Mount. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 102k | Close Up Of Damage After 2nd Kamikaze, Midships At The Aft Stack. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
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34k | Photo taken by Vincent Grobbel BM1/c USCG from the USS Davenport (PF-69), circa 15 Nov 1945 to 4 Feb 1946 at the South Boston US Navy Yard. | Mike Grobbel | |
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43k | As above. | Mike Grobbel | |
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51k | As above. | Mike Grobbel | |
| 110k | Braine As She Appeared in 1953. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 84k | Braine As She Appeared From 1951 Until Decommissioning In 1971. | Paul L. Conway, CY 1943-1946 Historian, USS BRAINE DD-630 | |
| 120k | USS Stoddard (DD-56) and USS Braine (DD-630) in San Diego circa 1956-57. | Everett Ellestad | |
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137k | Circa 1956, location unknown. | Everett Ellestad | |
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69k | Circa 1956, location unknown. | Everett Ellestad | |
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71k | Taken in 1958 from the USS Piedmont (AD-17) as she came alongside for underway replenishment. | Bill Caldwell | |
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138k | May 2 1961, location unknown. | Ed Zajkowski | |
| 179k | USS Hornet (CVS-12) at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The photo may have been taken in late January-mid February 1965, at the end of her FRAM II modernization. Bow of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) is visible on the right-center of the picture, stern of USS Braine (DD-630) on the bottom, and USS Chicago (CG-11) on the left-center. | Tracy White | |
| 127k | A closer view of the Braine as seen in the above photo. Naval Shipyard Hunters Point San Francisco, Historic Shipyard Photographic Collection 1904-1974, NARA San Francisco. | Tracy White | |
| 175k | From the 1966-1967 WestPac Cruisebook. | Richard B. Kirkland | |
| 58k | The USS Turner Joy (DD-951), during 1966-67 deployment to Vietnam, coming alongside the USS Braine (DD-630). | Richard B. Kirkland | |
| 158k | Three views of the USS Braine (DD-630) replenishing from the USS Coral Sea in February 1967 while on the way home from a WestPac Deployment. | Michael O'Brien | |
| 198k | As above. | Michael O'Brien | |
| 215k | As above. | Michael O'Brien | |
| 63k | Forward stack of the USS Braine while in the yard at Naval Ship Yard Mare Island December 1967. The ship in the background is the USS Uhlmann (DD-687) in the floating drydock at the south end of the yard. | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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56k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
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77k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
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66k | Ship's patch. | Richard B. Kirkland | |
| On Argentinian Service |
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67k | Manuel Tomás Domecq Garcia (born in Tobatí, Paraguay, 12 June 1859; died in Buenos Aires, 11 January 1951). Paraguayan-Argentinian military man and politician; was inter alia Minister of the Navy during the presidency of Marcelo T. Alvear. | Francisco Javier Santos Vazquez | |
| 146k | The First and Second Destroyer Divisions in 1979 at the Naval Base of Puerto Belgrano, near Bahia Blanca in the south part of Buenos Aires Province. Since no hull numbers can be seen it is impossible to accurately identify each ship, however, the ships present include the D 22 Rosales (ex DD 644 Stembel), D 29 Piedrabuena (ex DD 730 Collett), D 25 Seguí (ex DD 702 Hank), D 23 Domecq Garcia (ex DD630 Braine), D 24 Storni (ex DD 547 Cowell), D 27 Py (ex DD 877 Perkins) and the D 26 Bouchard (ex DD 704 Borie). Additional info thanks to Adalberto Alvarez; "In the photograph, the ships on the right belong to the 2nd Division of Destroyers. On the left, we see the 1st Division of Destroyers, and we find the Bouchard among these. (The Bouchard was assigned to the 2nd Division in 1980). The ship we see on the front of the 1st Division Destroyers is not the Bouchard, because the Bouchard didn’t have that kind of life rafts until 1982, during the war. The ship in the middle belongs to the Fletcher class. This means that the Bouchard is the one moored to dock." | Horacio Héctor Virardi | |
CDR John F. Newman Jr. May 11 1943 - May 11 1944 CDR William Wilson Fitts May 11 1944 - Aug 1945 LCDR Marlin David Clausner Aug 1945 - Jul 26 1946 (Decommissioned Jul 26 1946 - Apr 6 1951) CDR Eugene Darrel Laminman Apr 6 1951 - May 1952 CDR Doyan Klein May 1952 - Jul 25 1953 CDR James Harvey Elsom Jul 25 1953- Jul 25 1955 CDR Mervin Otis Slater Jul 25 1955 - Oct 24 1957 CDR Donald Anton Henning Oct 24 1957 - Nov 27 1959 CDR David Austin Shonerd Nov 27 1959 - Aug 14 1961 CDR Robert Whitney Lowman Aug 14 1961 - Dec 12 1962 CDR Edward Albert Williams Dec 12 1962 - Oct 15 1963 CDR Robert Juarez Oct 15 1963 - Jan 1965 CDR Elton Vaugh Conger Jan 1965 - May 28 1966 CDR Fred J. Fleiner May 28 1966 - Oct 2 1968 CDR Richard D. Van Antwerp Oct 2 1968 - Oct 30 1969 CDR Curtis R. Norton Jr. Oct 30 1969 - Dec 16 1969 CDR Philip Christian Simon Dec 16 1969 - Aug 17 1971
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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