RENO DD 303

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Clemson Class Destroyer Keel Laid 4 July 1918 - Launched 22 January 1919 USS RENO DD-303 Commissioned 23 July 1920 - Decommissioned 18 January 1930 Stricken 8 July 1930 Sold 1931 and broken up for scrap

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Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 3r

1927-02-16

From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type 3rs

1929-02-14

From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type 3s (BC) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"

1927-04-04

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Other Information

NAMESAKE - Lieutenant Commander Walter E. Reno, USN (3 October 1881 – November 19 1917).
        Reno was born in Davis County, Iowa, on 3 October 1881. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1901 and graduated in 1905. While a junior officer, Reno served primarily in battleships. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1910 and during the next four years was stationed in the battleships New Jersey and Wisconsin. From early 1914 until early 1916 he was Officer in Charge at the Chicago, Illinois, Navy Recruiting Station. Lieutenant Reno then went out to the Philippines, where he took command of the destroyer USS Chauncey (Destroyer No. 3). In the Summer of 1917, after United States had entered World War I, Reno brought his ship from the Far East to the European war zone. While on convoy escort duty west of Gibraltar during the night of 19 November 1917, Chauncey was rammed by a merchant steamer and sank, taking with her Lieutenant Commander Reno and twenty of his ship's officers and men.

The ships sponsor was Miss Kathryn Baldwin Anderson.

 

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