COWELL DD 167

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.

Wickes Class Destroyer
Keel Laid 15 July 1918 - Launched 23 November 1918


1. USS COWELL Destroyer No. 167
   Commissioned 17 March 1919
   
   
2. USS COWELL DD-167
   Designated (DD) 17 July 1920 - Decommissioned 27 June 1922
   Recommissioned 17 June 1940 - Decommissioned 23 September 1940
   
   Struck from Naval Register 8 January 1941
   
   
3. HMS BRIGHTON I-08 (British Naval Service)
   Transferred to Great Britain 23 September 1940 (Famous Fifty)
   
   
4. ZHARKYI (Soviet Union Naval Service)
   Transferred to The Soviet Union 16 July 1944
   Returned to Great Britain 28 February 1949
   
   Broken up for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Cowell DD-167 Covers Page 1     (1940)

 

Postmarks

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

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2nd Commissioning June 17 1940 to September 23 1940

 

Locy Type FDC SLPts(n) (46x3)

1940-06-17

Recommissioning, cachet by Loring W. Stannard, sponsored by Tazewell G. Nicholson. From the Bob Govern collection.

 

Locy Type SLKts(n) (46x3)

1940-09-14

Additional USPO Machine postmark from Newport RI.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Lieutenant John G. Cowell, USN (18 September 1785 - April 18 1814)
Cowell entered the Navy as a Master 21 January 1809. As Acting Lieutenant, Cowell was severely wounded, losing a leg, in the action on 28 March 1814 between USS ESSEX and HMS PHOEBE and HMS CHERUB off Valparaiso, Chile. Refusing to be carried below, Cowell cheered his companions on through the remainder of the action. He was carried on shore, and exhibited such gallantry and courage under severe pain until his death on 18 April that the people of Valparaiso honored him with a burial place in their principal church; a most unusual honor for a foreigner.

The ships sponsor was Miss E. P. Garney.

Three ships of the US Navy have been named in his honor - USS Cowell DD-139 (Renamed WARD prior to launching), USS Cowell DD-167 and USS Cowell DD-547.

 

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