HAMILTON AG 111
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 8 June 1918 - Launched 15 January 1919 Recommissioned 20 January 1930 Decommissioned 16 October 1945 Stricken 1 November 1945 Sold 21 November 1946 and broken up for scrap |
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Naval Covers
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- USS Hamilton DD-141 Covers Page 1 (1933-1941)
- USS Hamilton DMS-18 Covers Page 1 (1941)
- USS Hamilton AG-111 Covers Page 1 (DATE)
Postmarks
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1938-10-27 |
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DD-141. Navy Day. Cachet by C. Wright Richell and Loring W. Stannard.
Cachet remembers the loss of FULTON AS-1, PANAY PR-5, AKRON ZRS-4, MACON ZRS-5 and SWALLOW AM-4.
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1935-02-01 |
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DD-141. Leaving Newport RI, cachet by Donald A. Bishop
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1941-12-06 |
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DMS-18. Cachet by Gordon A. Shaw
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1939-05-30 |
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As DD-141. Memorial Day. Cachet by C. Wright Richell
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Locy Type F |
1935-07-04 |
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DD-141. Independence Day, serviced by P. J. (PeeJay) Ickeringill
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Locy Type F |
1935-07-04 |
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DD-141. Independence Day, serviced by P. J. (PeeJay) Ickeringill
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Locy Type SLK3 |
1935-04-21 |
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DD-141. From the Bob Govern collection.
Other Information
USS HAMILTON earned the American Campaign Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal during her Naval career.
USS Hamilton earned a total of nine battle stars for her service in the European–African–Middle Eastern theater and the Pacific theater of operations.
NAMESAKE - Lieutenant Archibald Hamilton, USN (about 1790 - 15 January 1815).
Hamilton was the son of Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton. He was appointed Midshipman on 18 May 1809. Hamilton was assigned to work with a new kind of hollow shot needed by frigate USS President. He next sailed for Europe on USS John Adams on 31 January 1811 carrying dispatches for American officers in the Mediterranean. On his return to the United States, Hamilton was assigned to USS United States on which he won commendation from his commanding officer, Captain Stephen Decatur, for gallantry in action during the capture of British frigate HMS Macedonian on 25 October 1812. Decatur selected him to bear the captured British flags to Washington.
Appointed Acting Lieutenant on 21 December 1812 and Lieutenant on 24 July 1813, Hamilton served throughout the War of 1812, only to be killed shortly after the Treaty of Ghent had formally ended the war. Because of the slow communications of the day, word of peace had not reached New York by 15 January 1815 when the frigate USS President, commanded by Captain Decatur and having Hamilton as one of her lieutenants, ran the blockade out of that port. The next day British men-of-war HMS Endymion, HMS Pomone and HMS Tenedos overtook and captured USS President after a long and bloody running fight in which Hamilton was killed. He was the last U.S. Navy officer to die in the War of 1812.
The ships sponsor was Miss Dolly Hamilton Hawkins, great-grand-niece of Archibald Hamilton.
Three ships of the US Navy have borne the name HAMILTON - USS Hamilton (1812 schooner) Named after Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton, USS Hamilton AG-111 and USS Hamilton FFG-66 (Cancelled Nov 2025).
Two cutters of the USCG have been named HAMILTON - USCGC Hamilton WHEC-715 and USCGC Hamilton WMSL-753, however they were named after Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and founder of the United States Revenue Cutter Service.
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