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	151k	Lt. Edward Moale, Jr., born at Little Rock, Ark., 10 September 1866, was appointed a naval cadet in 1882 and commissioned an ensign, 1 July 1889. As an officer on board gunboat Helena in 1898, he took part in operations against Spanish land and naval forces at Santiago de Cuba, including the naval battle of 3 July. Helena subsequently sailed east, around the Cape of Good Hope, and across the Indian Ocean to the Philippines. There, Lieutenant Moale participated in operations, off northern Luzon, to assist the U.S. Army during the Philippine Insurrection, 1890-1900. Lieutenant Moale later served in Scindia, San Francisco, Chicago, and Brooklyn, He died 23 October 1903, at Baltimore, Md., from illness contracted during land operations in the Cagayan Valley swamps in 1899. Photo #: NH 91970. USS Vandalia (1876-1889) ship's officers posed on deck, while she was flagship of the Pacific Station, circa 1888. Photographed at Honolulu, Hawaii. Those present are Seated, left to right: Lieutenant John C. Wilson; Chief Engineer George J. Burnap; Lieutenant James W. Carlin; Captain Henry L. Howison, Commanding Officer; Paymaster Frank H. Arms; Surgeon Hosea J. Babin; and Lieutenant Charles E. Fox. Standing, left to right: Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Horace M. Witzel; Passed Assistant Engineer Alexander B. Bates; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas M. Brumby; Naval Cadet Harold K. Hines; Naval Cadet Samuel P. Edmunds; Naval Cadet Edward Moale, Jr.; Naval Cadet Charles E. Johnston; Naval Cadet Samuel B. Winram; Lieutenant Hawley O. Rittenhouse; Carpenter Joseph B. Fletcher; Assistant Surgeon Francis W.F. Wieber; Naval Cadet George F. Cooper; Ensign Charles E. Sweeting; Lieutenant Greenlief A. Merriam; First Lieutenant George F. Elliott, USMC; Pay Clerk John Roche; Assistant Engineer Walter M. McFarland; and Naval Cadet William G. McMillan. Paymaster Arms and Pay Clerk Roche lost their lives when Vandalia was sunk in the 15-16 March 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa. Collection of Lieutenant Edward Moale, Jr. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Bill Gonyo
	94k	Artist's conception of the Moale as she appeared after FRAM II overhaul 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
	81k	Undated, location unknown.		-
	51k	Undated, location unknown.		Morton Richman
	56k	Undated postcard Copyright © Atlantic News, Fall River, MA.		Mike Smolinski
	165k	Undated, location unknown.		David Buell
	166k	Undated, location unknown.		Bill Gonyo
	96k	USN Photo NH 95259: Mindoro Invasion, December 1944. USS LST-738 burning after she was hit by a Kamikaze off the Mindoro landing beaches, 15 December 1944. USS Moale (DD 693) is nearby. Note hole in LST-738's starboard side, just forward of the large "738" painted there. Smoke in the left distance may be from LST-472, which was also hit by the Kamikaze attack. Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 9d.		Joe Radigan
	109k	Photo of Journalist Ernie Pyle being transferred to USS Moale by Boatswain's Chair from USS Cabot, a small carrier. This was sometime in winter or early spring 1945.		Bill Britigan
	68k	San Diego, CA 1947.		Marc Piché
	144k	1961 photo of the Moale as rebuilt in a typical Sumner class FRAM II reconstruction. While she retains all three 5"/38 twin mounts and her forward dual-purpose director, she has been equipped with a DASH system, long, deckhouse enclosed, torpedo tubes with light-weight Mk 32 tubes atop the deckhouse and new variable depth transducers and sonars.		-
	84k	Circa 1951-1952 taken from USS Robert K. Huntington by Carmen J. Costa.		Carmen S. Costa
	79k	Circa 1951-1952 taken from USS Robert K. Huntington by Carmen J. Costa.		Carmen S. Costa
	207k	June 13 1955, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	41k	Portsmouth, England 1964.		Butch Wentz
	120k	Boston Naval Shipyard, June 1965		© Richard Leonhardt
	61k	Mediterranean Sea., June 1967		© Richard Leonhardt
	81k	Mediterranean Sea., June 1967		© Richard Leonhardt
	38k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski

CDR Walter Manley Foster    Feb	28 1944 - May 8 1945 (Later RADM)
CDR Charles M. Lyons Jr.    May 8 1945 - May 20 1945 (Later RADM)
CDR Robert P. Walker    May 20 1945 - Jan 18 1947
CDR Jay Valentine Chase    Jan 18 1947 - Feb 14 1948
CDR John McGavock Grider    Feb 14 1948 - Mar 7 1949
CDR Emery Harrison Huff    Mar 7 1949 - Nov 21 1950
CDR John E. Johansen    Nov 21 1950 - Dec 17 1951
CDR Thomas John LaForest    Dec 17 1951 - Dec 17 1953
CDR Edward Raymond Hunt    Dec 17 1953 - Jul 8 1955
CDR Charles Raymond Calhoun Jr.    Jul 8 1955 - Jul 6 1956
CDR Leslie Hale Sell    Jul 6 1956 - Jan 27 1958 (Later RADM)
CDR William Aaron Spalding Jr.    Jan 27 1958 - Oct 1 1959
CDR Russell Delavan Ward    Oct 1 1959 - Apr 1 1961
CDR Charles E. Delaney    Apr 1 1961 - Apr 27 1963
CDR Martin M. Zenni    Apr 27 1963 - Jul 2 1965
CDR Forrest Ray Degler Jr.    Jul 2 1965 - Sep 7 1967
CDR Jack Scoville    Sep 7 1967 - 1968
CDR Beates    1968-1971
CDR Arthur R. Ellingwood Jr.    1971 - Mar 30 1973
CDR Robert Eugene Pedigo    Mar 30 1973 - May 1973
LCDR Edward Franklin Sclichter    May 1973 - Jul 2 1973