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USS Dobbin (AD-3)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - November - Romeo
 NUNR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Dobbin Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Laid down, 23 December 1919, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched, 5 May 1921
  • Commissioned, USS Dobbin (AD-3), 23 July 1924, CDR. D. C. Bingham in command
  • USS Dobbin was at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941
  • Decommissioned, 27 September 1946, at San Diego, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 24 December 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 5 May 1950, to Ziedell Shipwrecking Co., Portland, OR.
  • USS Dobbin received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,325 t.(lt) 12,450 t.(fl), 13,109 (lim)
    Length 483' 10"
    Beam 61'
    Draft 24' 5"
    Speed 13.5 kts. (max) 9kts. (econ) 16 kts. (trial)
    Complement
    officers 42
    enlisted 372
    Armament
    four single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    six twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Largest boom capacity 15 t.
    Ship's Service Generators three turbo-drive 250Kw 120V D.C.
    Fuel Oil Capacity NSFO 16,760 Bbls.
    Propulsion
    one Philadelphia, Parsons design, geared turbine engine
    four Thorny boilers 215psi Sat.
    single Parsons Main Reduction Gear
    single propeller, 7,000shp
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    Dobbin 108k USS Dobbin (AD-3) fitting out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, on the yard's Delaware River waterfront, with the hammerhead crane in center, 31 May 1923. Among the ships visible are: Destroyers USS Sharkey (DD-281), USS Coghlan (DD-326) and USS Preston (DD-327), at right; and USS Lamson (DD-328), astern of Preston with two other destroyers moored inboard.
    US Navy photo # NH 43454 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.         		US Naval Historical Center
    Dobbin 74k USS Dobbin (AD-3) underway, date and location unknown. C.K. Barnes, USS Dobbin - Pearl Harbor survivor
    Courtesy Jon Burdett
    Dobbin 63k USS Dobbin (AD-3) underway, date and location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Dobbin 100k USS Dobbin (AD-3) underway, date and location unknown. C.K. Barnes, USS Dobbin - Pearl Harbor survivor
    Courtesy Jon Burdett, and Cheryl Odell
    Dobbin 56k USS Dobbin (AD-3) off Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA., circa 1925.
    US Navy photo # NH 1349 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.         		US Naval Historical Center
    Dobbin 157k USS Dobbin (AD-3) off Gonaives, Haiti, with seven destroyers alongside, March 1928. The destroyers are (from outboard to inboard): USS Kane (DD-235); USS King (DD-242); unidentified; USS James K. Paulding (DD-238); USS Sturtevant (DD-240); and two unidentified.
    US Navy photo # NH 61556 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.         		US Naval Historical Center
    Dobbin 74k USS Dobbin (AD-3) at anchor, date and location unknown. Note USS Bonita (SS-165) underway in the foreground. Ric Hedman and Tom Kermen
    Dobbin 78k USS Dobbin (AD-3) at anchor, date and location unknown. (Close-up view of photo #1) Dobbin appears to have four Clemson class destroyers alongside. Note USS Bonita (SS-165) underway in the foreground. Ric Hedman
    Dobbin 140k USS Dobbin (AD-3) moored at San Diego on Navy Day, 27 October 1932. The destroyers tied up alongside are (from inboard to outboard): USS Sands (DD-243); USS King (DD-242); USS Humphries (DD-236) and USS Lawrence (DD-250). All ships are dressed with flags for the holiday. Note the airplane flying overhead.
    US History and Heritage Command photo # NH 65009, Donation of Franklin Moran, 1967    		 Robert Hurst
    Dobbin 49k USS Dobbin (AD-3) with six destroyers alongside at Humboldt Bay, New Guinea anchorage, 7 October 1944. The outboard destroyer is USS Howorth (DD-592).
    National Archives photo # SC 261022    		 John Chiquoine and Dave Schroeder
    Dobbin 50k USS Dobbin (AD-3) with (from inboard to outboard) USS Lovering (DE-39), USS Welles (DD-628), USS Mustin (DD-413) and USS Fletcher (DD-445) alongside at Seeadler harbor, Admiralty Islands, date unknown. Photo from "United States Destroyer Operations of World War II", by Theodore Roscoe. Robert Hurst
    USS Dobbin (AD-3)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Commanding Officers
    CDR. Bingham, Donald Cameron,23 July 1924 - ?
    CAPT. Henderson, Robert William :RADMJuly 1926 - July 1928
    CAPT. Sadler, Frank Howard :RADM17 December 1928 - ?
    CDR. Comstock, Lewis Wells,January 1938 - July 1939
    CAPT. Eldredge. Emory P.,? - 1940
    CAPT. Paddock, Hubert E.,1941 - September1942
    CDR. Williams, Harold Nordmark, September 1942 - 26 May 1944
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Pearl Harbor Action Report
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