MacKENZIE DD 175

Ship Name and Designation History

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Wickes Class Destroyer Keel Laid 4 July 1918 - Launched 29 September 1918 USS MacKENZIE Destroyer No. 175 Commissioned 25 July 1919 USS MacKENZIE DD-175 Designated (DD) 17 July 1920 - Decommissioned 27 May 1922 Recommissioned 6 November 1939 - Decommissioned 24 September 1940 Stricken 8 January 1941 HMCS ANNAPOLIS I-04 (Canadian Naval Service) Transferred to Great Britain (Royal Canadian Navy) (Famous Fifty) 24 September 1940 Sold 4 June 1945 and broken up for scrap

Lt.Cmdr. Alexander S. Mackenzie

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS MacKenzie DD-175 Covers Page 1    (1940)

 

Postmarks

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

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2nd Commissioning 6 November 1939 to 24 September 1940

 

Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-TBT) "NEWPORT / RHODE ISL"

1940-03-12

First Day Postal Service

 

Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "MARITIME DAY / BOSTON MASS"

1940-06-09

Cachet by - Charles R. Peatfield, RCD No. 254

 

Locy Type LDPS 3 (A-TBT) "BOSTON / MASS"

1940-09-13

Last Day of Postal Service

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Lieutenant Commander Alexander Slidell MacKenzie USN (24 January 1842 - 13 June 1867)
Appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1855, he graduated in June 1859 and was assigned to the newly completed steam sloop of war USS Hartford. During the next two years, Midshipman MacKenzie served in that ship with the East India Squadron. Promoted to lieutenant in August 1861, he was an officer of the gunboat USS Kineo during the conquest of the lower Mississippi River in 1862. During 1863 and 1864 he later transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, MacKenzie served off Charleston, South Carolina, in the steam frigate USS Wabash and monitor USS Patapsco, taking part in combat operations against Fort Sumter and Morris Island. Later in the Civil War he commanded the USS Winona, also in the waters off South Carolina. In July 1865 MacKenzie received the rank of lieutenant commander and soon began a second Far Eastern deployment in Hartford.
After the end of the war, he returned to the East Asia in USS Hartford, in which he served until 13 June 1867, when he was killed in action at Kenting, Taiwan, while leading a punitive expedition against the massacre of the entire crew of an American merchant bark Rover.

Three ships of the US Navy have been named in his honor - USS MacKenzie TB-17, USS MacKenzie DD-175 and USS MacKenzie DD-614.

 

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