INGRAHAM DD 444

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.

Gleaves Class Destroyer
Keel Laid November 15 1939 - Launched February 15 1941


1. USS INGRAHAM DD-444
Commissioned July 19 1941

SUNK (Collision) August 22 1942
Struck from Navy Register September 11 1942

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Ingraham DD-444 Covers Page 1    (1941-42)

 

Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type 3z (BTT)

1941-07-19

Commissioning, cachet by D. F. Griffin

 

Locy Type 3 (A-TTT) "FIRST DAY IN / COMMISSION"

1941-07-19

Commissioning, cachet by Walter Czubay. Postmark may be backdated. Because of wartime security measures, ships were receiving "Z" postmarks not named postmarks.

 

Locy Type 3z (BTT)

1942-03-28

Official Business

 

Locy Type Fz "AUG 27 1941" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z3

1941-07-19

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

 

Other Information

USS INGRAHAM collided with the oil tanker USS CHEMUNG AO 30 in heavy fog off the coast of Nova Scotia and sank almost immediately. Depth charges on her stern exploded.

NAMESAKE - Captain Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, USN (December 6 1802 – October 16 1891).
Ingraham was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal following his actions regarding Martin Koszta, a Hungarian who had declared in New York his intention of becoming an American citizen, and who had been seized and confined in the Austrian ship Hussar.
Captain Ingraham served as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrographer of the Navy from 1856 until 1860.
He resigned from the U.S. Navy February 4 1861 to enter the Confederate States Navy with the rank of Captain. He served as Commandant of the Charleston naval station from 1862 to 1865.

Four ships of the US Navy have been named USS Ingraham in honor of Captain Duncan Ingraham -
USS Ingraham DD-111/DM-9, USS Ingraham DD-444, USS Ingraham DD-694 and USS Ingraham FFG-61.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. George Ingraham Hutchinson, granddaughter of Captain Ingraham.

 

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