UPHAM APD 99
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.
Keel Laid December 13 1943 Launched March 9 1944 as Rudderrow Class Destroyer Escort DE-283 Reclassified High-speed Transport (APD) July 17 1944 |
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Postmarks
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1945-12-13 |
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1945-08-07 |
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Other Information
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
NAMESAKE - Frank Brooks Upham USN (September 7 1872 - September 15 1939)
Upham was appointed to the Naval Academy on September 6 1889 and graduated on June 2 1893. Following the completion of the two required years of postgraduate sea duty, which he served on the Pacific Station in USS PHILADELPHIA C-4, Upham was commissioned an Ensign on July 1 1895 and joined USS OLYMPIA Cruiser No. 6 on July 18 before she sailed for the Far East to become the flagship of the Asiatic Squadron. At the time of the Spanish-American War, Upham was on the staff of the Commander in Chief, Asiatic Squadron, Commodore George Dewey; and the young officer received his baptism of fire during the Battle of Manila Bay. He advanced up the officer ranks of the Navy, eventually attaining flag rank in 1927. During the years before World War I, Upham's sea duty embraced tours several ships; he also commanded USS OLYMPIA and the Yacht USS SCORPION PY-3. He served tours of duty ashore at Newport, R.I., at the Naval War College and in Washington at the Bureau of Ordnance. His overseas shore duty began in the summer of 1911 when he took up the duties of Assistant Naval Attache at Tokyo and Peking, shortly before the outbreak of the Chinese Revolution in October of that year. During World War I, Upham commanded USS COLUMBIA Cruiser No. 12 and USS PUEBLO Armored Cruiser No. 7 and won the Navy Cross for leading the latter during the "difficult, exacting, and hazardous" convoy escort missions across the Atlantic. In the years following the armistice, Capt. Upham was Chief of Staff to the Commander, Battleship Force, Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, before serving successive tours of shore duty: in Paris as naval attache and in Washington assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence. He commanded USS TENNESSEE BB-43 from September 1924 to March 1926 and subsequently filled the billet of commandant of the naval air station at Pensacola, Fla. He capitalized on this assignment to earn his naval aviation observer's wings. Upham successively commanded Battleship Division 3 and Submarine Divisions, Control Force, and served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Given the temporary rank of Admiral on August 18 1933, Upham returned to the Far East as Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet, and broke his flag in Cruiser USS AUGUSTA CA-31 commanded by Capt. (later Fleet Admiral) Chester W. Nimitz. Relieved by Admiral Orin G. Murfin in October 1935, Upham returned to the United States to serve as chairman of the General Board from December 20 1935 to September 30 1936. Placed on the retired list on October 1 1936, Rear Admiral Upham died in San Francisco, Calif., on September 15 1939
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