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Loaned to Spain renamed Blas De Lezo (D65).| Click On Image For Full Size Image |
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![]() [1] ![]() [2] | 56k 129k | 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 | |
| 94k | Artist'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 | |
| 164k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 165k | Two views of the Noa coming alongside the USS Tarawa (CVS-40) in the Atlantic from ALL HANDS magazine of April 1960. | Stanley Svec | |
| 161k | As above. | Stanley Svec | |
| 111k | November 2 1961, US Navy photo. | Ed Velasquez | |
| 147k | Photo 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 | |
| 99k | This 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 | |
| 152k | Circa 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.) | |
| 54k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 61k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
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| 95k | As the Spanish D-65 circa 1980s. | Marc Piché | |
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
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