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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Balch''''' was one of 8 destroyers of the [[Cassin Class Destroyer (1912)|Cassin class]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Balch''''' was one of eight [[Cassin Class Destroyer (1912)|''Cassin'' class destroyers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1913-15.
  
 
==Service==
 
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==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=David Carlisle Hanrahan|nick=David C. Hanrahan|appt=26 March, 1914{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 22}}|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=William Faulkner Amsden|nick=William F. Amsden|appt=after 1 February, 1918|end=1 September, 1918<ref>''Burlington Free Press'' 21 June, 1919 p. 3.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Lee Payne Johnson|nick=Lee P. Johnson|appt=After 1 September, 1918{{INF}}|end=after 1 April, 1919<ref>''Navy Diectory'' 1 April, 1919 p. 196.</ref>}}
 
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==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 20:27, 12 February 2022

U.S.S. Balch (1912)
Hull Number: DD-50
Builder: William Cramp & Sons[1]
Laid down: 7 May, 1912[2]
Launched: 21 Dec, 1912[3]
Commissioned: 26 Mar, 1914[4]
Decommissioned: 20 Jun, 1922[5]
Stricken: 8 Mar, 1935[6]
Sold:

U.S.S. Balch was one of eight Cassin class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy in 1913-15.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 429.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 429.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 429.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 429.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 429.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 429.
  7. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 22.
  8. Burlington Free Press 21 June, 1919 p. 3.
  9. Navy Diectory 1 April, 1919 p. 196.

Bibliography


Cassin Class Destroyer
  Cassin Cummings Downes Duncan  
  Aylwin Parker Benham Balch  
<– Monaghan Class Destroyers (US) O'Brien Class –>