LIVERMORE DD 429

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.

Gleaves Class Destroyer
Originally ordered as GRAYSON
Renamed December 23 1938
Keel Laid March 6 1939 - Launched August 3 1940


1. USS LIVERMORE DD-429
   Commissioned October 7 1940 - Decommissioned January 24 1947
   
   Struck from Naval Register July 19 1956
   Sold March 3 1961
   
   Broken up for scrap August 1961

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1    (1940-45)

 

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

 

Locy Type FDC 3 "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"

1940-10-07

First Day of Commission (Notice the dial set-up "OCT 7 P.M. 1940")
Cachet by Leo A. Schupp

 

Locy Type FDC 3 "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"

1940-10-07

First Day of Commission (Notice the dial set-up "OCT 7 1940 P.M.")

 

Locy Type FDC 9x

1940-10-07

First Day of Commission

 

Locy Type 2z

1945-06-06

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Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)

1941-04-18

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Locy Type 3b (A-BXT)

1945-12-13

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Locy Type 3z (BBT)

1941-06-17

Manuscript ship's name on front

 

Other Information

LIVERMORE received 3 battle stars for her World War II service

NAMESAKE - Samuel Livermore (August 26 1786 - July 11 1833)
The first Naval Chaplain to be thus honored. Graduating from Harvard in 1804, he practiced law in Boston, Mass. During the War of 1812 he served as acting Chaplain in CHESAPEAKE and was wounded and captured in her engagement with HMS SHANNON in June 1813. Released from prison at Halifax, Nova Scotia, he served as purser in various Navy ships, including Brig SPARK in the Mediterranean in 1815 during the brief war with Algiers. He left the Navy in 1816, practiced law in Baltimore and New Orleans, and died July 11 1833 at Florence, Ala., enroute to New England.

 

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