TWIGGS DD 127

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 January 23 1918 - Launched September 28 1918


1. USS TWIGGS Destroyer No. 127
   Commissioned July 28 1919
   
   
2. USS TWIGGS DD-127
   Designated (DD) July 17 1920
   Decommissioned June 24 1922
   Recommissioned February 20 1930 - Decommissioned April 6 1937
   Recommissioned September 30 1939 - Decommissioned October 23 1940
   Stricken January 8 1941
   
   
3. HMS LEAMINGTON G-19 (British Naval Service)
   Transferred to Great Britain October 23 1940 (Famous Fifty)
   
   
4. HMCS LEAMINGTON (Canadian Naval Service)
   Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy November 1942 - December 1943
   
   
5. ZHYACHI (Soviet Naval Service)
   Transferred to The Soviet Union July 16 1944
   
   Broken up for scrap 1951

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1    (1930-40)

 

Postmarks

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

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2nd Commissioning February 20 1930 to April 6 1937

 

Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "ASTORIA / OREGON"

1934-08-25

Cachet by - R. B. Hare

 

Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

1935-04-26

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Locy Type 3s (A)

1930-05-30

Postmark on back from "Mare Island Station", Vallejo, CA date June 18 1930

 

Locy Type 5bhks (XOX) "SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA"

1932-05-09

Notes:

 

Locy Type LDPS 3 "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"

1937-04-05

Last Day Postal Service

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3rd Commissioning September 30 1939 to October 23 1940

 

Locy Type FDPS 3 "MARE / ISLAND"

1939-11-15

First Day of Postal Service
Add-on cachet by Roger A. Wentworth

 

Locy Type FDPS 3 "MARE / ISLAND"

1939-11-15

First Day of Postal Service

 

Locy Type LDPS 3 "NEW YORK / N.Y."

1940-09-30

Last Day Postal Service

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Major Levi Twiggs, USMC (May 23 1793 - September 13 1847). Major Twiggs was an veteran of the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars (1836-37) and the Mexican-American War. He was killed by enemy gunfire as he led a storming party in the assault on Chapultepec before Mexico City on September 13 1847

There have been two US Navy ships named in his honor; USS Twiggs DD-127 and USS Twiggs DD-591.

 

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