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	48k	Photo #: NH 99078. Ensign Ralph M. Rich, USNR image cropped out of a group photograph (Photo # 80-G-464482) of the pilots of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6), taken on board USS Enterprise (CV-6) in January 1942, prior to the Marshall Islands raid. The propeller hub of a Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcat" fighter is directly behind him. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	69k	Undated, location unknown.		Marshall DuBois
	33k	Undated, location unknown.		-
	66k	Undated, location unknown.		Don Bunch, USS Rich crew member during the Korean War
	44k	Undated, USS Rich (DD-820), USS Holder (DD-819) and USS New (DD-818) of DesRon 36.		Edward H. Cleary
	66k	Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.		Mike Smolinski
	65k	Photo #: NH 86112. USS Rich (DD-820) off Orange, Texas, on 10 July 1946, one week after completion. Note that she was completed as a standard general purpose Gearing class destroyer with three twin 5"/38 mounts. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	85k	1946 port visit to Venice, Italy		Robert J. Hoeppner RM3C
	40k	1946 port visit to Venice, Italy		Robert J. Hoeppner RM3C
	225k	1946 port visit to Venice, Italy		Robert J. Hoeppner RM3C
	64k	Photo #: NH 86114. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount and addition of a small mainmast and a new integrated sonar. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	63k	Photo #: NH 86113. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount and addition of a small mainmast and a new integrated sonar. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	53k	Photo #: NH 99736. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	46k	Photo #: NH 99737. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included the addition of a small mainmast. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	90k	Photo #: NH 99738. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The modifications included removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	91k	Photo #: NH 86115. USS Rich (DD-820) off the New York Naval Shipyard on 17 September 1947 after initial converson to a specialized ASW destroyer. The position of the former number two 5"/38 gun mount was covered with a plate that included a smaller mounting ring for a trainable hedgehog, not yet fitted. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	88k	USS Robert K. Huntington (DD-781) at anchor with the USS Harold J. Ellinson (DD-864) and USS Rich (DDE-820) during the the 1950s, probably in a Mediterranean port (Photo No NH 99873).		Robert Hurst
	102k	Photo #: NH 92296. USS Rich (DDE-820) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 19 May 1951 configured as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE). Note the tripod foremast with upgraded radars. Courtesy of Frank Jankowski, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	87k	Photo #: NH 99766. USS Rich (DDE-820) off the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, on 15 August 1951, while serving as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE). She now carries a trainable hedgehog forward of the bridge and has a tripod foremast with upgraded radars, but retains her original quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and 40mm anti-aircraft battery. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	70k	Photo #: NH 99874. USS Rich (DDE-820) view of the bridge and the tripod foremast, with the underway watch set, during the 1950s. A portion of the ship's trainable hedgehog is visible at the bottom left. Note radar antennas and signal flags. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	84k	Photo #: NH 99871, USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950s. The destroyers are USS Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). One of the early Guppy conversion submarines is alongside to starboard. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	86k	Photo #: NH 99872, USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950s. The destroyers are USS Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	82k	Photo #: NH 99768, USS Rich (DDE-820) digging into a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	86k	Photo #: NH 99769, USS Rich (DDE-820) rising out of a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961. The ship, near the end of her service as an escort destroyer (DDE), has lost her quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and possibly her 40mm anti-aircraft battery. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	113k	Photo #: NH 99770, USS Rich (DDE-820) alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) commencing underway replenishment on 28 February 1961. Messenger lines have just been passed between the two ships; fueling and highline rigs and phone distance lines will follow. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	123k	Photo #: NH 99771. USS Rich (DDE-820) alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) on 2 March 1961, possibly preparing to refuel. Note the Wasp's refueling gear rigged out for use. Photographed by USS Wasp. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	111k	Photo #: NH 99802. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed on 15 September 1963 during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard. She was nearing the end of her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	119k	Photo #: NH 99803. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed on 15 September 1963 during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard. She was nearing the end of her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	98k	Photo #: NH 99804. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed on 15 September 1963 during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard. She was nearing the end of her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. The stern of USS Chukawan (AO-100) is visible to the right. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	97k	Norfolk, August 1964		© Richard Leonhardt
	79k	Western Mediterranean 1964. Photo by Marius BAR Photographs of Toulon, France.		Marc Piché
	90k	Photo #: NH 99805. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed in the Adriatic Sea on 29 August 1964, about a year after her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	125k	Photo #: NH 99806. USS Rich (DD-820) photographed underway circa 1964, soon after her modernization to a FRAM I type destroyer. This was used as the ship's publicity photo in 1965-66. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Ret.), 2004. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	63k	Photo #: NH 87852-KN. USS Rich (DD-820) anchored outside the harbor of Mogadiscio, Somalia, during a 13-15 February 1966 port call. Courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Stephen S. Roberts, USNR, 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	64k	Photo #: NH 99933. USS Rich (DD-820) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967 with a DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter on deck. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	69k	Photo #: NH 99934. USS Rich (DD-820) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967 with a DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter on deck. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	73k	Photo #: NH 99937. USS Rich (DD-820) underway in Chesapeake Bay on 17 April 1967 with a DASH drone anti-submarine helicopter on her deck. Photographed by PH2 C. Komperda, of the Photographic Laboratory, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Courtesy of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2005. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	77k	Photo #: NH 99850. USS Rich (DD-820) conducting an underway astern refueling from the merchant tanker SS Erna Elizabeth in February 1972. During this evolution, conducted during an exercise, warships of various types and nationalities refueled from a single hose trailed astern of the tanker. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Tony Cowart
	108k	Photo #: NH 99851. USS Rich (DD-820) underway probably during the 1970s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart
	56k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	40k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	105k	Photo #: NH 75796-KN. USS Rich (DDE-820) plaque of ship's insignia received in 1964. This design was probably used during the later 1950s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Tony Cowart

CDR Robert Cecil Houston    Jul 3 1946 - Dec 1947
CDR Harold Edward Baker    Dec 1947 - Sep 1949
LCDR Eugene Howard Simpson    Sep 1949 - Jan 1951
CDR Francis O'Connor Fletcher Jr.    Jan 1951 - Jan 1951
CDR Edward Lynn Huie    Jan 1951 - Aug 1952
CDR Charles Williamson Jenkins    Aug 1952 - Sep 1954
CDR Richard Walton Arey    Sep 1954 - Mar 21 1956
CDR John August Lindbeck    Mar 21 1956 - Dec 19 1957
CDR Cecil Clark    Dec 19 1957 - Apr 8 1959
CDR William Duncan Taylor    Apr 8 1959 - Oct 1960
CDR Charles Francis Harding Jr.    Oct 1960 - Jan 1963
LCDR Emil F. Wasniewski    Jan 1963 - 1963
CDR Hugh Corwin Mason    1963 - Jul 1963
CDR John R. Riediger    Jul 1963 - Nov 1964
CDR Francis A. Carrier    Nov 1964 - Nov 1965
CAPT Leslie Knapp Fenlon Jr.    Nov 1965 - Jul 27 1967
CDR Edward C. Whelan Jr.    Jul 27 1967 - Jul 1969
CDR John H. Scott Jr.    Jul 1969 - Nov 25 1970
CDR Marvin Frank Hanigan    Nov 25 1970 - Jun 16 1972
CAPT Richard Anthony Mozier    Jun 16 1972 - Oct 1973
CDR Hollis Eugene Robertson    Oct 1973 - Nov 23 1974
LCDR Joseph C. Henderson    Nov 23 1974 - 1975
CDR George Stefencavage    1975 - Dec 15 1977