RIZAL DM 14

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 26 June 1918 - Launched 21 September 1918


1. USS RIZAL Destroyer No. 174
   Commissioned 28 May 1919
   
   
2. USS RIZAL DM-14
   Reclassified Light Minelayer (DM) 17 July 1920
   Decommissioned 20 August 1931
   
   Struck from Naval Register 11 November 1931
   Sold 1932 and scrapped

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Rizal DM-14 Covers Page 1    (1928-31)

 

Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type 5s "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"

1931-08-18

As DM-14. Add-on cachet by Richard F. Hoffner

 

Locy Type 9

1923-03-27

As DM-14. Additional USPO Lowell, Mass. Duplex

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-19

1928-12-15

As DM-14

 

Locy Type LDC 5s "LAST DAY / SERVICE"

1931-08-20

As DM-14. Last Day of Commissioning.

 

Locy Type LDPS 5s "LAST DAY / SERVICE"

1931-09-18

As DM-14. Last Day of Postal Service.

 

Other Information

USS RIZAL, a steel, flush-deck destroyer, was donated to the United States by resolution of the Philippine legislature, and had Filipinos constituting the majority of her crew.

NAMESAKE - José Rizal, Philippine patriot, author, poet, and physician, was born 19 June 1861 in Calamba, Laguna Province, Luzon. After studies in Manila, Paris, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Leipzig, Rizal published his first novel in 1886. The publication of the book, a violent attack on Spanish administration in the Philippines, led to Rizal's arrest and deportation. He subsequently lived in China, Japan, Britain, France, and the United States, publishing poetry and a second novel. After settling in Hong Kong to practice medicine, Dr. Rizal returned to Manila in 1892 only to be arrested as a revolutionary agitator and banished to Dapitan on Mindanao. While attempting to leave Mindanao for Cuba in 1896, Rizal was again arrested and taken to Manila where he was given a farcical trial and sentenced to death. A figure of inspiration and hope to the Filipino world, Dr. José Rizal is remembered by an imposing monument in Manila which marks the spot where he fell before the firing squad on 30 December 1896. {DANFS}

 

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