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| 139k | Charles Ellwood Colahan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 25 October 1849. Colahan graduated from the United States Naval Academy 4 June 1869. His long and active career included command of Indiana (BB-1) and Cleveland (C-19). Commander Colahan died at Lambertville, N.J., 11 March 1904. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and was appointed to the Naval Academy from that State in 1865. He served his country faithfully and well from the date of his appointment to the time of his death in 1904. During his long career in the Navy it may truly be said of him that he never evaded duty no matter how disagreeable. He was actively employed during his entire period of service in most conspicuous duties, being Executive Officer of the Detroit during the war with Spain, and as Commandant of Cadets at the Naval Academy from 1900 to 1904. It has been the lot of few men to have made and kept so many friends. Known throughout the Navy by young and old, to the young officer he was the beau ideal of what a Naval officer should be. He displayed in his life that high sense of duty and loyalty which, combined with courtesy and consideration for others, ever resulted in the best work enthusiastically performed. To the older members of the service he was a loved friend on whom, in official and in private life, the fullest dependence was placed. In him the Navy had a devoted servant whose aim from youth up was to advance its interest and to add to its efficiency. He left a memory of priceless to his country and to his service. Photo from the “Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Officers of the Army and Navy” (1905). | Bill Gonyo | |
| USS Colahan (DD-658) |
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| 8k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 156k | Undated, location unknown. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 31, Design 16d. | Joe Radigan | |
| 77k | Undated, location unknown. | Charlie Flannery | |
| 85k | Undated, at Long Beach. | Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR (Ret.) | |
| 116k | Undated, location unknown. | Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR (Ret.) | |
| 145k | USS Colahan (DD-658) underway, probably while being delivered to the Navy by her builder, Bethlehelm Steel Company, Staten Island, New York. The original negative in the National Archives is dated 21 August 1943, two days before she was commissioned. Note that Colahan is not flying the National Ensign and that her 20mm and 40mm guns, searchlights, and Mark 51 gun directors are covered with black tarps. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 107200. | Robert Hurst | |
| 41k | Circa 1944, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
| 145k | Circa 1944-1945 when Matthew's grandfather, Edwin Mullen, served aboard the Colahan. | Matthew D. Duval | |
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127k | Naval Gun Fire Support (NGFS) plan for the invasion of Saipan on June 15 1944. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
| 43k | USS Colahan going to the aid of the USS Hazelwood after the Hazelwood was hit by a Kamikaze off Okinawa on April 29 1945. | Wayne VanDerVoort | |
| 79k | Navy Photo 471-47, broadside view of USS Colahan (DD 658) off Mare Island on 10 March 1947. She was in overhaul at the yard from 4 January to 12 March 1947. | Darryl Baker | |
| 81k | Navy Photo 473-47, bow on view of USS Colahan (DD 658) at the South end of Mare Island on 10 March 1947. | Darryl Baker | |
| 146k | Circa 1948, location unknown. Photo courtesy L & L van Ginderen. | Robert Hurst | |
| 106k | USS Colahan (DD-658) docked at Vancouver BC on June 25 1948. Source: City of Vancouver Archives, Photo No. AM1506-S3-3-: CVA 447-8713, by Walter E. Frost. | Mike Green | |
| 143k | Circa 1950, location unknown. Interesting gun crew! | Tommy Trampp | |
| 59k | USS Shields (DD-596) and USS Colahan (DD-658) in the early 1950s in Yokosuka, Japan. | Armand Richard | |
| 128k | Destroyer Squadron 17, photographed at the foot of Broadway, San Diego, California, in March 1955. Destroyers in front row include (left to right): USS Twining (DD-540); USS Erben (DD-631); USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) and USS Gregory (DD-802). Behind them are (left to right): USS Shields (DD-596); USS Colahan (DD-658); USS Marshall (DD-676) and USS Porterfield (DD-682). USS Kearsarge (CVA-33) is tied up in the left distance, at Naval Air Station, North Island. Structure in the bottom center is the "Naval Destroyer Boat House". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Fred Weiss | |
| 104k | Navy Photo 33353-3-57, broadside view of USS Colahan (DD 658) off Mare Island on 12 March 1957. She was in overhaul at the yard from 7 Dec 1956 to 11 March 1957. | Darryl Baker | |
| 81k | Navy Photo 33355-3-57, stern view of USS Colahan (DD 658) in the Mare Island channel on 12 March 1957. | Darryl Baker | |
| 165k | USS Colahan (DD 658) off Mare Island on December 12 1957. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. | Darryl Baker | |
| 171k | USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE-366) moored outboard of USS Colahan (DD-658) at a city wharf on September 27 1958. Source: City of Vancouver Archives, Photo No. AM1506-S3-3-: CVA 447-8705, by Walter E. Frost. | Mike Green | |
| 105k | Off Point Loma, San Diego, pre 1960. | Chris Culp | |
| 202k | In San Diego Bay post 1960. | Wolfgang Hechler/Chris Culp | |
| 211k | USS Colahan (DD-658), USS Watts (DD-567), USS Tingey (DD-539) and USS Laws (DD-558) in Sasebo, Japan circa 1960-1962. | John J. Gobbell | |
| 119k | August 13 1963, Reserve Training Ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. | Charlie Flannery | |
| 80k | August 20 1963, operating in Hawaiian Waters with Joint Task Unit 99.9. | Charlie Flannery | |
| 22k | Ships patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 261k | Ships patch. | Tom Gamstetter | |
| 121k | Ships patch circa 1963. | Charlie Flannery | |
| 100k-120k | Uniform Ship's name shoulder patch. | Al Grazevich | |
| 94k | Forward COLAHAN stack, 1944-1950. The "Tomcat" insignia was initially designed/painted by the COLAHAN in World War II, then quickly adopted by other warships in Destroyer Squadron 53, the so-called "Tomcat Squadron." The insignia here has been colorized accurately: black & white snarling cat on a yellow field encircled by a dark green "C." The name "Tomcat" refers to advanced Fast Carrier Task Force pickets, prowling far out front of the fleet. | Jackson Sellers | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CDR Donald Taylor Wilber (USNA 1931) | 23 August 1943 - 30 January 1945 |
| 02 | CDR Martin Adam Shellabarger (USNA 1933) | 30 January 1945 - 30 June 1945 |
| 03 | CDR Frank Dolan Whalen (USNA 1938) | 30 June 1945 - 14 June 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 14 June 1946 - 15 December 1950 | |
| 04 | LCDR George Warren Miller USN | 14 June 1946 - 1947 (in charge) |
| 05 | LT Charles Lynley Cook USN | 1947 - 1948 (in charge) |
| 06 | CAPT John Ames Holbrook (USNA 1924) | 1948 - 1949 (in charge) |
| 07 | LTJG Lewis Albert Denton USN | 1949 - 1950 (in charge) |
| 08 | CDR James Samuel Spielman USN | 1950 ? (in charge) |
| 09 | CDR Gale Seaver Felton (USNA 1941) | 20 March 1951 - 19 March 1952 |
| 10 | CDR William Kerr Brooks USN | 19 March 1952 - 29 July 1954 |
| 11 | CDR Henry Joseph Brantingham (USNA 1939) | 29 July 1954 - 10 March 1956 |
| 12 | CDR C.L. Keedy, Jr. USN | 10 March 1956 - 10 May 1958 |
| 13 | CDR John Winston Gross USN | 10 May 1958 - 08 April 1960 |
| 14 | CDR Raymond Albert Hubbard USN | 08 April 1960 - 01 July 1961 |
| 15 | CDR James Ruppert Switzer USN | 01 July 1961 - 05 August 1961 |
| 16 | CDR Raymond Albert Hubbard USN | 05 August 1961 - 21 October 1961 |
| 17 | CDR Reynold Masters USN | 21 October 1961 - 26 September 1962 |
| 18 | CDR Adrian DeWitt Wagner USN | 26 September 1962 - 15 October 1964 |
| 19 | CDR Rex Gygax (USNA 1947) | 15 October 1964 - 01 August 1966 |
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Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves |
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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