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USS NOA (DD-841)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign - NBBS

Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign (circa 1968) - STEEL HEAD

CLASS - GEARING As Built.
Displacement 3460 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 390' 6"(oa) x 40' 10" x 14' 4" (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, 36.8 Knots, Range 4500 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 336.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME March 26 1945.
Launched July 30 1945 and commissioned November 2 1945.
Decommissioned October 31 1973.
Loaned to Spain renamed Blas De Lezo (D65).
Stricken June 2 1975.
Sold to Spain May 17 1978.
Fate Stricken and scrapped in 1991.

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Loveman Noa was born 5 October 1878 at Chattanooga, Tenn. Appointed to the Naval Academy as a midshipman 5 September 1896, he graduated in June 1900, and was ordered to the Asiatic station in gunboat Mariveles. The morning of 26 October 1901 Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from Mariveles in a small boat to watch for craft engaged in smuggling contraband from the island of Leyte to Samar. When ready to return to Mariveles, they found the wind and the tide against them. As the boat was taking on water, they put into a small cove on the island of Samar. While scouting the adjacent jungle, Noa, was attacked and stabbed four times by Filipino insurgents. He died before aid could reach him. [1] Portrait of Naval Cadet David Bernard Loveman Noa. [2] Commemorative plaque at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD erected by the Class of 1900 in Memorial Hall.Bill Gonyo
Noa 94kArtist's conception of the Noa as she appeared after FRAM I 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
Noa 164kUndated, location unknown.-
Noa 165kTwo views of the Noa coming alongside the USS Tarawa (CVS-40) in the Atlantic from ALL HANDS magazine of April 1960.Stanley Svec
Noa 161kAs above.Stanley Svec
Noa 111kNovember 2 1961, US Navy photo.Ed Velasquez
Noa 147kPhoto taken from mount 32 on the USS Brough (DE-148) over looking the Mayport FL harbor naval complex. The ship off the port bow is the USS Noa (DD-841), and the aircraft carrier across the harbor is the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, (CVA-42).Bill Netsch
Noa 99kThis post-FRAM, official Navy photograph, makes an interesting comparison to the pre-FRAM view, above. It was taken in Nov. 1968, while Noa was preparing for a Vietnam deployment; at the time, the mast supporting the antennas of her EW systems (atop the hangar) had been rebuilt to add an ULQ-6 active system, intended to counter the threat of the anti-ship missiles believed to be in the North Vietnamese inventory.Fabio Peña
Noa 152kCirca 1969 postcard view taken in Mayport, FL. Ships include the USS Turner (DD-834), USS Stribling (DD-867), USS Noa (DD-841) and USS Fiske (DD-842).Rich Wersinger, CDR, USNR (Ret.)
Noa 54kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
Noa 61kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
On Spanish Service
Noa 95kAs the Spanish D-65 circa 1980s.Marc Piché

USS NOA DD-841 History
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Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

CDR Rathel L. Nolan Jr.    Nov 2 1945 - Sep 12 1947
CDR Rufus Lackland Taylor    Sep 12 1947 - Apr 9 1948 (Later VADM)
CDR J. S. Fletcher    Apr 9 1948 - Aug 10 1949
CDR Russell Henry Buckley    Aug 10 1949 - Aug 4 1950
CDR Malcolm Townsend Munger    Aug 4 1950 - Feb 24 1951
CDR William Roy Barnes    Feb 24 1951 - Mar 5 1951
CDR George H. Rood    Mar 5 1951 - Mar 24 1952
CDR William H. Ayer    Mar 24 1952 - Aug 19 1953
CDR Ralph B. Terrill    Aug 19 1953 - Oct 7 1955
CDR Melvin Hulquist Dry    Oct 7 1955 - Dec 27 1957
CDR Daniel W. Abercrombie III    Dec 27 1957 - Mar 2 1960
CDR Richard Wheeler Belt    Mar 2 1960 - Jun 8 1960
CDR Lawrence Eugene (Larry) Traynor    Jun 8 1960 - Mar 24 1961
CDR John Dryden Exum    Mar 24 1961 - Oct 17 1962
CDR Frank George Schettino    Oct 17 1962 - Dec 30 1963
CDR H. B. Gibbs    Dec 30 1963 - Feb 21 1965
CDR Walter William Doescher Jr.    Feb 21 1965 - Oct 31 1966
CDR J. E. Edmundson    Oct 31 1966 - Jul 18 1968
CDR Horace Desmond (Skip) Mann Jr.    Jul 18 1968 - Jul 18 1969
CAPT John Staige Kern    Jul 18 1969 - Aug 5 1969 (Later RADM)
CDR H. L. Hunt    Aug 5 1969 - Jun 5 1971
CDR Jack Lewis Marriott    Jun 5 1971 - 1972
CDR William Henry Peerenboom    1972 - Sep 1973
LCDR Raymond Allan Helbig    Sep 1973 - Oct 31 1973

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Bob Karas
Address:
Phone:
E-mail: Navyk@juno.com


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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