KING DDG 41

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.

Farragut Class Destroyer Leader Ordered as "Destroyer Leader" (DL-10) 18 November 1955 Reclassified "Guided Missile Frigate" (DLG) 14 November 1956 Keel Laid 1 March 1957 - Launched 6 December 1958 USS KING DLG-10 Commissioned 17 November 1960 - Decommissioned 30 April 1974 USS KING DDG-41 Reclassified Guided Missile Destroyer DDG-41 1 July 1977 Recommissioned 17 September 1977 - Decommissioned 28 March 1991 Stricken 20 November 1992 Sold 15 April 1994 and broken up for scrap in 1995

Naval Covers

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1. USS King DDG-41 Covers Page 1    (1961-91)

 

Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type 2tnu

1961-06-01

DLG-10, Ship's cachet.

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. K-26

1977-10-26

DDG-41, Cachet by the USS America Chapter No. 71, USCS for the Recommissioning of KING on September 17 1977.

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. K-26

1977-12-12

DDG-41, Ship's cachet, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. K-26

1981-12-30

DDG-41, Ship's cachet, Med Cruise. Serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. K-26

1985-11-20

DDG-41, Ship's cachet, 25th Anniversary +3. Serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. K-26

1986-06-01

DDG-41, ship's cachet.

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. K-26a

1988-09-30

DDG-41, Decommissioning of USS Richard L. Page FFG-5

 

Locy Type 2 & 9 USS Bainbridge CGN-25

1991-03-28

N/A

DDG-41, Ship's cachet, Decommissioning of USS KING. Postmarked by USS Bainbridge CGN-25.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, USN (November 23 1878 - June 25 1956).
King was a veteran of the Spanish-American War (as a Naval Cadet), World War I and World War II. King was Commissioned an Ensign on June 7 1903 and retired as Fleet Admiral on December 15 1945.
King held a wide variety of positions in Navy, serving on Ships, in Submarines and in the Aviation field. King was selected as Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet in the fall of 1940, and he was promoted to Admiral in February 1941. On December 30 1941 he became Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet. On March 18 1942, he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations, relieving Admiral Stark. He is the only person to hold this combined command. On December 17 1944 he was promoted to the newly created rank of Fleet Admiral. He retired on December 15 1945 but was recalled as an advisor to the Secretary of the Navy in 1950.
During his naval career, Fleet Admiral King received the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal with two Gold Stars, the Spanish Campaign Medal, the Sampson Medal, the Mexican Service Medal, the World War I Victory Medal with Atlantic Fleet Clasp, the American Defense Service Medal with Bronze "A", the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
Foreign Orders and Decorations received by Fleet Admiral King include - Commander of the Order of Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Panama) 1929, Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy 1933, Order of Merit, Grande Official (Brazil) 1943, Naval Order of Merit (Cuba) 1943, Estrella Abdon Calderon (Ecuador) 1943, Croix de guerre (France) 1944, Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur (France) 1944, Order of Pao-Ting (China) 1945, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (United Kingdom) 1945, Grand Cross of the Order of George I (Greece) 1946, Croix de guerre (Belgium) 1948, Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) 1948, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Italy 1948 and the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands) 1948.

 

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