SHAW DD 373

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Ship Name and Designation History

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USS SHAW DD-373
Commissioned 18 September 1936
Severely damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941
Repaired August 1942
Decommissioned 2 October 1945

Struck from Naval Register 24 October 1945
Sold 1946 and broken up for scrap

Naval Covers

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USS Shaw DD-373 Covers Page 1 (1936-1945)

Postmarks

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

Post office established 26 September 1936 - Disestablished 25 September 1945

Locy Type
FDPS 3r (A-BBT)

"FIRST DAY /
MAIL"

1936-10-26

First Day Postal Service, cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky

Locy Type
FDPS 3r (A-BBT)

"FIRST /
MAIL"

1936-10-26

First Day Postal Service, cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by T. M. Holcombe

Locy Type
3r (A-BBT)

"TOULON /
FRANCE"

1937-06-03

Shakedown Cruise

Locy Type
3r (AC-BBT)

1941-08-19

Cachet by Robert Stoner, sponsored by J. Robert Bund. Cachet is thermographed.

Locy Type 9v

1936-11-01

Mark from back of cover

Locy Type Fz

USCS Postmark
Catalog Illus. S-38

1942-04-18

Fancy wartime "z" strike used while under repair from damage sustained in Pearl Harbor attack

Locy Type
3r (A-BBT)

(Killer Off Cover)

-BACKDATED-

1941-12-07

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge. Cachet designed for the Wartime "Z" postmarks. Address on the back from William R. Welch
"Severely damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941. Although the cancellation itself is authentic, overs with this date postmarked. See April 2018 LOG Article

Other Information

USS SHAW earned the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 11 Battle Stars and the WWII Victory Medal during her Naval career.
USS SHAW was at Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941

NAMESAKE - Captain John Shaw, USN (1773 - 17 September 1823)
Shaw was born at Mountmellick, County Laois, Ireland, in 1773, and moved to the United States in 1790, where he settled in Philadelphia, and entered the merchant marine.
         Appointed Lieutenant in the United States Navy on 3 August 1798, he first served in USS Montezuma in Commodore Thomas Truxtun's squadron in the West Indies during the early part of the Quasi-War with France. On 20 October 1799, he was given command of the schooner USS Enterprise in which, during the next year, he captured seven armed French vessels and recaptured several American merchantmen. By the time he was relieved of command due to ill health in October 1800, he had made USS Enterprise one of the most famous vessels of the Navy.
         During the First Barbary War, Shaw commanded frigate USS Adams in the Mediterranean under Commodore John Rodgers from May to November 1804. He was promoted to Captain in August 1807.
         Shaw helped suppress the 1811 German Coast Uprising.
         During the War of 1812, Shaw commanded the New Orleans naval post as well as the frigate USS United States.
         Captain Shaw died at Philadelphia, where he is interred in the Christ Church Burial Ground.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. Dorothy Van Tuyl Linch Tinker, great-great-granddaughter of Captain John Shaw.

Two ships of the US Navy have been named in his honor - USS Shaw DD-68 and USS Shaw DD-373.

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