CONOLLY DD 979

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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.

    Spruance Class Destroyer
    Keel Laid September 29 1975 - Launched June 3 1977

  1. USS CONOLLY DD-979
    Commissioned October 14 1978 - Decommissioned September 18 1998

    Stricken September 18 1998

Naval Covers

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  1. Covers Page 1    (1978-98)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
to
Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

Locy Type
FDC 2-1(n+)

1978-10-14
to
1978-10-14

First Day in Commission


 

Locy Type
FDC 2-1(n+)

1978-10-14
to
1978-10-14

Commissioning, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
FDC 2-1(n+)

1978-10-14
to
1978-10-14

Commissioning
Richard F. Hoffner
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
FDC 2-1(n+)

1978-10-14
to
1978-10-14

Commissioning
Richard F. Hoffner
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
FDC 2-1(n+)

1978-10-14
to
1978-10-14

Commissioning
Richard F. Hoffner
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
FDC 9-1(n+u)

1978-10-14
to
1978-10-14

Commissioning
Richard F. Hoffner
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
2-1(n+) (USS)

1979-05-07
to
1979-05-07

Keel Laying of the IIS Andushirvan
Richard F. Hoffner
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
2-1(n+) (USS)

1986-05-28
to
1986-05-28

NOTES


 

Locy Type
2-1n (D2,USS,USN)

1989-12-01
to
1989-12-01

NOTES


 

Locy Type
2-1n (USS)

1998-09-18
to
1998-09-18

Decommissioning
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

Locy Type
9-1(n+u) (USS)

1998-09-18
to
1998-09-18

Decommissioning
Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Richard Lansing Conolly USN (April 26 1892 - March 1 1962)
Conolly was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1910 and graduated 1914. Conolly was awarded The Navy Cross for his actions while attached to Destroyer USS SMITH DD-17 in the salvage and rescue of the WESTBRIDGE after she was torpedoed by a German Submarine in 1918. Conolly and eight others boarded and assumed control of the ship, guiding her 400 miles to a safe port. Later he commanded Destroyer Squadron 6, and participated in the initial attack on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands February 1 1942. In April 1942, his destroyers served as escort for the aircraft carrier USS HORNET CV-8 from which Lieutenant General J. H. Doolittle's Army planes took off for the first bombing of Tokyo. He also participated in a shore bombardment of Wake Island in command of destroyers in Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Task Group
Conolly and his wife were killed in an American Airlines commercial jetliner crash, March 1 1962. he and his wife are buried in Arlington National Cemetary

 


 

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