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DD-731 USS MADDOX


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign - NHHK

Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign (circa 1968) - SINBAD

CLASS - ALLEN M. SUMNER As Built.
Displacement 3218 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 6"(oa) x 40' 10" x 14' 2" (Max)
Armament 6 x 5"/38AA (3x2), 12 x 40mm AA, 11 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 36.5 Knots, Range 3300 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 336.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME October 28 1943.
Launched March 19 1944 and commissioned June 2 1944.
Decommissioned (?) 1972.
Stricken July 2 1972.
To Taiwan July 6 1972, renamed Po Yang.
Stricken in 1985.
Fate Transfered to Naval Weapons school and then scrapped.

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Maddox 54kUndated, location unknown. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 9d.-
Maddox 140kUndated, location unknown.-
Maddox 76kUndated postcard.Mike Smolinski
Maddox 72kUndated postcard.Mike Smolinski
Maddox 84kAugust 1944, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Maddox 40kAugust 1944, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Maddox 69kView capturing the dazzle camouflage on MADDOX being painted out by ship's company. Only a remnant of the pattern remains on the bow. Photo taken at Ulithi anchorage between 7 and 13 March, 1945, from RINGGOLD, Dwight Spayth collection.John Chiquoine and Dave Schroeder
Maddox 147kNavy Photo 48-46, aft plan view of USS Maddox (DD 731) at Mare Island on 5 Jan 46.Darryl Baker
Maddox 82kNavy Photo 50-46, forward plan view of USS Maddox (DD 731) at Mare Island on 5 Jan 46.Darryl Baker
Maddox 165kUSS Maddox (DD-731) steamining astern of USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) off San Diego, California, 3 March 1954. Note her anti-submarine armament aft: a single depth charge rack on her stern with K-Gun depth charge throwers at the deck sides forward of then after 5"/38 gun mount (Photo No NH 97903).Robert Hurst
Maddox 137kUSS Maddox (DD-731) underway at sea, 28 January 1955. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Fred Weiss
Maddox 38kCirca 1957-1958.Al Kaplan
Maddox 128kUSS Maddox underway with crewmen manning the rail forward and amidships, during the 1950s. This photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was probably taken some years earlier (Photo No NH 97901).Robert Hurst
Maddox 133kUSS Maddox underway during the 1950s (Photo No NH97902).Robert Hurst
Maddox 87kUSS Maddox operating with an Anti-Submarine Squadron 23 (VS-23) S2F Tracker aircraft (with its MAD boom extended), during a joint Canadian-United States ASW exercise, 16 August 1959. Photographed by PHC Kirchir (Photo No NH 97910).Robert Hurst
Maddox 134kUSS Maddox operating at sea, circa the early 1960s (Photo No NH 97900).Robert Hurst
Maddox 86kUSS Maddox standing by as a Polaris missile fired by USS Ethan Allan (SSBN-608) breaks the surface of the Pacific Ocean during Exercise "Frigate Bird" of Operation "Dominic" 6 May 1962. Photographed by PH1 Burwell (Photo No NH 97906).Robert Hurst
Maddox 108kUSS Maddox (DD-731) underway at sea in 1963. Photographed from USS Oriskany (CVA-34). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Fred Weiss
Maddox 129kUSS Maddox (DD-731) Arriving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 19 March 1964. Photographed by PH3 B.J. Long, of the Commander 14th Naval District Photo Lab. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Fred Weiss
Maddox 100kUSS Maddox (DD-731) Operating off Oahu, Hawaii, on 21 March 1964. Photographed by PH2 Antoine. Note that the ship had recently been refitted with an SPS-40 air search radar. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Fred Weiss
Maddox 62kPhoto #: KN-11060: Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 1964, oil on canvas by Commander E.J. Fitzgerald, January 1965. It depicts the engagement between USS Maddox (DD-731) and three North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats on 2 August 1964. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.Scott Dyben
Maddox 103kUSS Maddox (DD-731) Entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 15 August 1966. Photographed by Lt. M.M. McClure. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Fred Weiss
Maddox 91kLocation unknown, circa 1971.Marc Piché
Maddox 63kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
Maddox 35kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski

USS MADDOX DD-731 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: KENNETH CHESTNUT
Address: 6844 CLARA LEE AVE, SAN DIEGO, CA. 92120
Phone: 619-582-1238
E-mail: MADDOXMAN@COX.NET


Note About Contacts.

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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