HEERMANN DD 532

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.

USS HEERMANN DD-532
Commissioned July 6 1943 - Decommissioned June 12 1946
Recommissioned September 12 1951 - Decommissioned December 20 1957

Stricken from Naval Register September 1 1975
ARA ALMIRANTE BROWN D-20 (Argentine Naval Service)
Loaned to Argentina August 14 1961 and renamed
Sold to Argentina January 14 1977
Stricken 1982 and scrapped

Naval Covers

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Covers Page 1 (1955)

Postmarks

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

1st Commissioning July 6 1943 to June 12 1946

Locy Type
2(n) Oct 27, 1945

1945-10-27

Navy Day

Locy Type
2z*

1944-01-01

New Year's Day sailor's mail.

2nd Commissioning September 12 1951 to December 20 1957

Locy Type
2

1953-03-21

Note:

Locy Type
9efu

1955-06-10

Note:

Other Information

HEERMANN earned the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon, the Philippine Republic Unit Citation Badge and nine battle stars for her World War II service.

NAMESAKE - Lewis Heermann, born in Kassel, Germany, 3 August 1779 was commissioned Surgeon's Mate in the United States Navy 8 February 1802. On 16 February 1804, during the War with the Barbary States, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur left Heermann in command of the bomb ketch Intrepid while he and a fearless band of American seamen boarded the captured frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor, swept her Barbary captors' crew overboard, and set the frigate ablaze.
When hostilities with the Barbary States closed in 1805, Heermann returned to the United States but soon took leave of absence to study in Europe until 1808 when he returned to active duty in Norfolk, Virginia. Largely due to his pleas for better medical care for the men of the Navy, Congress passed a bill authorizing the construction of hospitals at several naval stations, but the first official U.S. Naval Hospitals were not actually built until after Dr. Heermann's death.
He was transferred to New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1811; and, with the exception of a year in the North for his health and an assignment in 1830 in the Mediterranean where he served for an unknown time as Fleet Surgeon of the Mediterranean Squadron, he remained there until he died in May 1833.

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