CHARLES AUSBURNE DD 570

Ship Name and Designation History

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Fletcher Class Destroyer Keel Laid May 14 1941 - Launched March 16 1942 USS CHARLES AUSBURNE DD-570 Commissioned November 24 1942 - Decommissioned April 18 1946 Struck from Naval Register December 1 1967 ZERSTORER 6 D180 (German Naval Service) (alt: ZERSTÖRER) Transferred to Germany April 12 1960 and renamed NATO designation D180 Stricken by German Navy October 1968 and broken up for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Charles Ausburne DD-570 Covers Page 1    (1943-45)

 

Postmarks

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Locy Type 2(n) Oct 27, 1945

1945-10-27

Navy Day, cachet by M. Fay Muridge, sponsored by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS. From the Bob Govern collection.

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1945-11-10

Note:

 

Locy Type 3z (TBT)

1943-07-15

Official Business

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USPO Machine Cancel Charleston SC

1960-04-12

N/A

Transfer of USS Charles Ausburne to Germany as Zerstörer 6 (D180).
Notice the signatures of Cdr Otto von Buelow, Commanding Officer of Z6 and Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations.

 

Other Information

USS CHARLES AUSBURNE earned the Presidential Unit Citation, the Asiatic-Pacific Medal with 11 Battle Stars and the WWII Victory Medal for her WWII service.

NAMESAKE - Charles Lawrence Ausburne, USN (July 26 1889 - October 17 1917).
      Ausburne enlisted in the United States Navy February 25, 1908. As an Electrician First Class, Ausburne manned the emergency wireless station in the Army transport USAT Antilles, and following the ship's fatal torpedoing October 17, 1917 by U-105, stood to his duty until the ship sank beneath him. His gallantry was recognized in the posthumous award of the Navy Cross.

Two ships of the U.S. Navy have been named in his honor - USS Charles Ausburn DD-294 and USS Charles Ausburne DD-570.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. W. H. Cotton.

 

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