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Harold G. Bowen was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 06 November 1883. Graduating from the Naval Academy in 1905, he was commissioned in 1907, and in 1914
received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University. This set him into a lifelong naval career with the mission to improve the Navy’s machinery. Throughout the
1930s he served as Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Engineering (1931-1935) and then as Chief of the Bureau (1935-1939). In that position he modernized the Navy with such changes as
high-pressure, high-temperature steam for propulsion, high-speed turbines, and alternating current. Appointed Director of the Naval Research Laboratory in 1939, Bowen was also Technical Aide
to the Secretary of the Navy. As such Bowen proposed, on 11 October 1940, a program for development of radio ranging equipment (radar) which formed the basis for the Navy’s pre-war development
program. In addition to identification equipment and ship-based radar, this program included an airborne radar for surface search.
When his assignment to the NRL came to an end, Bowen became Special Assistant to James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (1942-1944) and then Secretary of the Navy (1944-1947). Sec.
Forrestal established the Office of Research and Inventions (ORI, soon renamed Office of Naval Research [ONR]) on 19 May 1945 and appointed Radm. Bowen as its first Chief. On 26 January 1946
Bowen sent a six-point policy proposal to the Secretary of the Navy and the CNO, on the subject "Nuclear Energy for the Navy." Although Admiral Bowen did not succeed in making the NRL a center
of nuclear research, he secured for the Laboratory the right to do the kind of basic research that would earn it respect in the scientific community at large. Bowen relinquished his post in 1947 and retired with
the rank of Vice Admiral. Vadm. Harold G. Bowen died on 01 August 1965 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The Admiral Bowen Award, named after him, annually honors one patent which
is determined to have had a significant impact upon the operation of the Navy.
USS Bowen (DE 1079) was the first ship to be named in his honor. (U.S. Navy photo #80-G-603565 now in the collections of the
National Archives) |
Bill Gonyo
Downey, Cal.
Assoc. Researcher
Navsource |
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02 May 1970: Westwego, La. - The future USS Bowen being side launched after being christened. |
S. Dale Hargrave
Newport News, Va. |
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1972: Norfolk, Va. - in drydock
(All 3 Photos © Douglas C. Rahn) |
Douglas C. Rahn |
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November 1975: North Atlantic
Both Photos © Richard Leonhardt |
Richard Leonhardt
Bethlehem, Pa. |
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undated image, taken prior to hull upgrade |
Robert M. Cieri |
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11 November 1979: Barcelona, Spain |
Fabio Peña
Aircraft Carrier Archives
Manager, Navsource
Barcelona, Spain |
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circa 1972: at sea - USS Bowen (FF 1079) underway in the Caribbean Sea.
(U.S. Naval Photographic Center photo #NH 107458 received May 1972, from the Naval History and Heritage Command) |
Bob Hurst
Worksop, Nottinghamshire,
England, United Kingdom |
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undated image, taken after hull upgrade |
John Rutherford |
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27 April 1983: At sea - The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
(CVN 69) steams with its battle group during exercise Bright Star '83. Front to Back: the frigate USS Bowen (FF 1079), the guided missile destroyer USS
Mahan (DDG 42), the guided missile cruiser USS
Belknap (CG 26), Eisenhower and three Egyptian fast missile craft.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-90-04854 from the Defense Visual Iinformation Center) |
Mike Smolinski
Clifton, N.J.
Navsource DE/FF/LCS
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22 October 1984: At sea - Port bow view of Bowen coming along the flagship USS
LaSalle (AGF 3).
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-85-01696 from the DVIC) |
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22 October 1984: At sea - Port bow view of Bowen underway.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-85-01693 from the DVIC) |
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22 October 1984: At sea - A low oblique port beam view of Bowen underway.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-85-01692 from the DVIC) |
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22 October 1984: At sea - Aerial starboard view of Bowen underway.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-85-01691 from the DVIC) |
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.. January 1985: At sea - Aerial port bow view of Bowen underway.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-85-01690 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A starboard bow view of Bowen underway.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-90-04545 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A partial starboard amidships view.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-90-04554 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A close-up partial starboard view.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-90-04549 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A view of the SPS-40 air search radar, upper left, and the Mark 68 gunfire control system (GFCS), right.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-90-04552 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A partial starboard bow view, showing that portion of the ship between the funnel and the Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System
(LAMPS) helicopter hangar.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-90-04550 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A close-up view of the SPS-40 air search radar, center, and the smaller SPS-10 surface search radar, right.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-90-04548 from the DVIC) |
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26 September 1988: Hampton Roads - A partial bow view of Bowen) underway.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-9004546 from the DVIC) |
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14 July 1990: Naval Station Norfolk, Va.: The frigates Bowen (FF 1079), left, USS
Trippe (FF 1075), center, and USS Glover (FF 1098) lie tied up at Pier 7.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-ST-90-11101 by Don S. Montgomery, USN (ret.) from the DVIC) |
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14 July 1990: Naval Station Norfolk - The frigates USS Bowen (FF 1079), left, USS Trippe (FF 1075), center, and USS
Glover (FF 1098) lie tied up at Pier 7.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-ST-90-11102 by Don S. Montgomery from the DVIC) |
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01 July 1993: Naval Station Staten Island, N.Y. - A view of the training frigate USS Bowen) (FFT 1079) and other ships moored at a pier at Naval Station, New York.
(U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-93-05464 by CWO3 Ed Bailey from the DVIC) |
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undated: Malaga, Spain - The Turkish Navy Knox-class frigate TCG Akdeniz F257 (ex-USS Bowen) entering Malaga.
(Photo courtesy of Eugenio Castillo Pert, from the Los Barcos de Eugenio) |
Bob Hurst
Worksop, Nottinghamshire,
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