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Photo # NH 99768: USS Rich digging into a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961.

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USS Rich (DDE-820, previously and later DD-820), 1946-1979 --
Views, 1951-1962


This page features views of USS Rich taken in 1951-1962 as an Escort Destroyer (DDE-820) after she received her tripod foremast and before her modernization under the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) program.

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Photo #: NH 92296

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 19 May 1951 configured as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE).
Note the tripod foremast with upgraded radars.

Courtesy of Frank Jankowski, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 99766

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Off the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, on 15 August 1951, while serving as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE).
She now carries a trainable hedgehog forward of the bridge and has a tripod foremast with upgraded radars, but retains her original quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and 40mm anti-aircraft battery.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 99767

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Photographed in the early 1950s as an anti-submarine escort destroyer (DDE).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 99874

USS Rich (DDE-820)

View of the bridge and the tripod foremast, with the underway watch set, during the 1950s.
A portion of the ship's trainable hedgehog is visible at the bottom left.
Note radar antennas and signal flags.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 99768

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Digging into a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961.
Photographed by USS Wasp.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 99769

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Rising out of a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for underway replenishment on 28 February 1961.
The ship, near the end of her service as an escort destroyer (DDE), has lost her quintuple 21" torpedo tube mount and possibly her 40mm anti-aircraft battery.
Photographed by USS Wasp.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 99770

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) commencing underway replenishment on 28 February 1961.
Messenger lines have just been passed between the two ships; fueling and highline rigs and phone distance lines will follow.
Photographed by USS Wasp.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 99771

USS Rich (DDE-820)

Alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) on 2 March 1961, possibly preparing to refuel.
Note the Wasp's refueling gear rigged out for use.
Photographed by USS Wasp.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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USS Rich is seen in the left distance in the following photograph:

Photo #: NH 99873

USS Robert K. Huntington (DD-781)

At anchor with USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864) and USS Rich (DDE-820) during the 1950s, probably in a Mediterranean port.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Page made 1 January 2005
Adapted for www.shipscribe.com 10 July 2021