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==Service==
 
==Service==
 
''Cowell'' was  commissioned 17 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander [[Clifford Evans Van Hook|Clifford E. Van Hook]] in command.
 
''Cowell'' was  commissioned 17 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander [[Clifford Evans Van Hook|Clifford E. Van Hook]] in command.
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''Cowell'' was one of the fifty U.S. destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940, becoming '''H.M.S. ''Brighton'''''.
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On 16 July 1944, she was trasnferred to the Soviet Union, becoming '''''Zarkij'''''.
  
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Clifford Evans Van Hook|nick=Clifford E. Van Hook|appt=17 March, 1919|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Clifford Evans Van Hook|nick=Clifford E. Van Hook|appt=17 March, 1919|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Ralph Greene Risley|nick=Ralph G. Risley|appt=23 November, 1921{{USOfficerReg1922|pp. 38-39}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Ralph Greene Risley|nick=Ralph G. Risley|appt=23 November, 1921{{USOfficerReg1922|pp. 38-39}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Charles William Vane Tempest Stewart Lepper|nick=Charles W. V. T. S. Lepper|appt=23 September, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|end=March, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Brighton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Temporary {{LiCRNVR}}|name=Gwilym Pinkerton Evans|nick=Gwilym P. Evans|appt=March, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|end=21 April, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Brighton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRNVR}}|name=James Vaudalle Fulton|nick=James V. Fulton|appt=21 April, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|end=22 September, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Brighton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Temporary Acting {{LCommRNVR}}|name=Duncan Howard Foulds|nick=Duncan H. Foulds|appt=22 September, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|end=16 July, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4305}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Brighton''}}
 
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Revision as of 13:52, 23 October 2019

U.S.S. Cowell (1918)
Hull Number: DD-167
Builder: Fore River[1]
Laid down: 15 Jul, 1918[2]
Launched: 23 Nov, 1918[3]
Commissioned: 17 Mar, 1919[4]
Decommissioned: 27 Jun, 1922[5]
Broken up: 1949[6]
U.S.S. Cowell was one of one hundred and eleven Wickes class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Cowell was commissioned 17 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander Clifford E. Van Hook in command.

Cowell was one of the fifty U.S. destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940, becoming H.M.S. Brighton.

On 16 July 1944, she was trasnferred to the Soviet Union, becoming Zarkij.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  7. Register of Officers, 1922. pp. 38-39.
  8. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  10. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  11. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  13. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  15. Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


Wickes Class Destroyer
Wickes Philip Woolsey Evans Little
Kimberly Sigourney Gregory Stringham Dyer
Colhoun Stevens McKee Robinson Ringgold
McKean Harding Gridley Fairfax Taylor
Bell Stribling Murray Israel Luce
Maury Lansdale Mahan Schley Champlin
Mugford Chew Hazelwood Williams Crane
Hart Ingraham Ludlow Rathburne Talbot
Waters Dent Dorsey Lea Lamberton
Radford Montgomery Breese Gamble Ramsay
Tattnall Badger Twiggs Babbitt De Long
Jacob Jones Buchanan Aaron Ward Hale Crowninshield
Tillman Boggs Kilty Kennison Ward
Claxton Hamilton Tarbell Yarnall Upshur
Greer Elliot Roper Breckinridge Barney
Blakely Biddle Du Pont Bernadou Ellis
Cole J. Fred Talbott Dickerson Leary Schenck
Herbert Palmer Thatcher Walker Crosby
Meredith Bush Cowell Maddox Foote
Kalk Burns Anthony Sproston Rizal
Mackenzie Renshaw O'Bannon Hogan Howard
  Stansbury Hopewell Thomas  
  Haraden Abbot Bagley  
<– Caldwell Class Destroyers (US) Clemson Class –>