WILLIAM R RUSH DD 714

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.

Gearing Class Destroyer Keel Laid 19 October 1944 - Launched 8 July 1945 USS WILLIAM R. RUSH DD-714 Commissioned 21 September 1945 - Decommissioned 21 December 1951 USS WILLIAM R. RUSH DDR-714 Reclassified Radar Picket Destroyer (DDR) 18 July 1952 Recommissioned 3 September 1952 USS WILLIAM R. RUSH DD-714 Reverted to Destroyer (DD) 1 July 1964 Decommissioned 1 July 1978 Struck from Naval Register 1 July 1978 ROKS GANG WON DD-922 Sold to South Korea 1 July 1978 and renamed Retired from South Korean Navy 29 December 2000 Now a museum ship at the South Korean Naval Headquarters in Jinhae Reportedly started to be scrapped in December 2016

Naval Covers

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1. USS William R. Rush DD-714 Covers Page 1     (1945-1965)

 

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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1st Commissioning September 21 1945 to December 21 1951

 

Locy Type 2z "V" cut in killer

1945-07-08

Launching of WILLIAM R. RUSH, this postmark is not from this ship.

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Locy Type 2

1950-09-06

DD-714. Destroyer Squadron 18 cachet.

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1946-05-20

As DD-714
War Games, cachet by Morris W. Beck

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1946-05-30

DD-714. WWII Patriotic cover by cachet artist Leonard Borkowski, cachet sponsored by Ted Harrington

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2nd Commissioning September 3 1952 to July 1 1978

 

Locy Type 2

1952-11-14

DDR-714

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1966-10-28

DD-714. Welcome to Norfolk cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)

1974-01-19

DD-714

 

Locy Type 9ef(n+u) (USS)

1966-10-28

DD-714. Welcome to Norfolk cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Locy Type 9efu

1952-11-14

DDR-714

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Captain William Rees Rush, USN (September 19 1857 – August 2 1940)
Rush was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and World War I. Rush was a Medal of Honor recipient for the 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz.
An 1877 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, Capt. Rush also earned the Navy Cross and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. Dorothy Flagg Biddle, a cousin of Capt. Rush.

 

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