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| 73k | Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone was born in 1871. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida in 1890, graduating in 1894. He served as Assistant Engineer on the USS Baltimore (C-3) in the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898. When the U.S. Fleet was sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt on December 16, 1907, Lieutenant Commander Cone commanded a flotilla of Torpedo Boats, which went around South America from the East Coast to California. In 1909 he was made Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering and was promoted to the temporary rank of Rear Admiral. He was in charge of engineering modernization of the Navy at the time, particularly conversion to turbines. In 1915 he was the Superintendent of the Panama Canal. During 1917-1918 he was in command of Naval Aviation in Europe under Admiral Sims. In October 1918 he was crossing the Irish Sea on a mail steamer which was torpedoed by a German u-boat. He was picked up unconscious after several hours in the water and ultimately recovered. After World War I, Admiral Cone attended the Naval War College. He was then assigned as Chief of Staff, Asiatic Fleet and Commander Flagship. He was retired as Rear Admiral in 1922 by reason of his war injuries. After retirement he served on the U.S. Shipping Board (now the Maritime Commission), under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him as chairman. He was also Vice President of the Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of aeronautics. At the time of his death in February 1941, he was Chairman-of-the-Board of Moore-McCormick Steamship Company. Mrs. H.I. Cone, his widow, sponsored USS Cone (DD-866) at its launching at Bethlehem Steel Company, Staten Island, NY on 10 May 1945. | Robert M. Cieri |
| 73k | Undated, location unknown. | - |
| 121k | Undated, location unknown. | Elmer Ray James |
| 110k | Undated photo by Bill Wozniak taken from USS Yellowstone (AD-27), destroyers from the left are unidentified, USS Cone (DD-866), unidentified, USS Meredith (DD-890), USS Dyess (DD-880) and USS Bordelon (DD-881) at the French naval port of Mers el-Kébir, near Oran (French Algeria).. | Rick Rowan |
| 93k | Undated photo by Bill Wozniak of the USS Cone (DD-866) and USS Stribling (DD-867) alongside the USS Yellowstone (DD-27). | Rick Rowan |
| 60k | Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA. | Mike Smolinski |
| 50k | Undated postcard Copyright © Atlantic Fleet Sales, Norfolk, VA. | Mike Smolinski |
| 111k | Undated, location unknown. | Robert M. Cieri |
| 115k | The USS Glennon (DD-840) and USS Cone (DD-866) alongside an unknown cruiser in 1945, location unknown. | Robert M. Cieri |
| 33k | Taken from the USS Wren in late 1953 in the Sea of Japan after a high-line transfer between the two ships | Gordon R. Hipp, RD2, USS Wren |
| 55k | Portsmouth, England circa 1970's. | Marc Piché |
| 36k | Portsmouth, England July 1974. | Marc Piché |
| 43k | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard October 1980. | Marc Piché |
| 51k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
| 47k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
To Pakistan October 1 1982, renamed Alamgir.
