BAYNTUN DE 1
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.
Contract Awarded 01 November 1941 Keel Laid 05 April 1942 as BDE-1 for the United Kingdom Launched 27 June 1942 - Christened 20 January 1943 |
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- USS Bayntun DE-1 Covers Page 1 (1945)
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Locy Type 3z# |
1945-09-27 |
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Sailor's Mail. From sailor Robert Armstrong to his future wife Betty. Cover shared by their son Tom Armstrong.
Special thanks to Lloyd Ferrell for his article on the Naval career of Robert Armstrong in the October 2018 USCS LOG.
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1945-10-04 |
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Sailor's Mail. From sailor Robert Armstrong to his future wife Betty. Cover shared by their son Tom Armstrong.
Special thanks to Lloyd Ferrell for his article on the Naval career of Robert Armstrong in the October 2018 USCS LOG.
Other Information
NAMESAKE - Admiral Sir Henry William Bayntun, Royal Navy (1766 - 17 December 1840).
Bayntun was born in 1766 and entered the Royal Navy at an early age; was commissioned lieutenant in 1783; given command of his first ship, the sloop HMS Avenger; and promoted by Sir John Jervis, after the reduction of Martinique in 1794. Later posted to the frigate HMS Undaunted, Bayntun spent the next decade save a brief period in 1796 in the West Indies.
Upon his return to England, he was given command of the 74 gun HMS Leviathan. Sailing to the Mediterranean to join Lord Nelson's forces in the blockade of Toulon, Bayntun's ship participated in the chase of the French fleet to the West Indies and back and in the Battle of Trafalgar. During that celebrated naval action, HMS Leviathan closed and battled the French flagship Bucentaur, and others, such as Santissima Trinidad and St. Augustin. In January 1806, at the funeral of Lord Nelson who had died of wounds suffered at Trafalgar, Capt. Bayntun "bore the guidon in the water procession from Greenwich Hospital".
After service off Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 1807, he received command of the 74 gunner, HMS Milford, in 1809 and of the yacht, Royal Sovereign, in 1811. Sources indicate that he performed "no further active service" after that point, but was promoted steadily until he received the rank of admiral on 10 January 1837. He died on 17 December 1840. He had been knighted on 2 January 1815.
The ships sponsor was Mrs. Diana V.K. Evans-Lombe.
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