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|Ship honors=6 [[battle star]]s (Korea)<br/>1 battle star (Vietnam)
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|Ship namesake= [[Constantine Kanaris]]
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'''USS ''Stickell'' (DD-888)''' was a {{sclass|Gearing|destroyer}} of the [[United States Navy]]. She was named for Lieutenant [[John H. Stickell]] USNR (1914&ndash;1943), who was killed in action at [[Jaluit Atoll]] in the [[Marshall Islands]] on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the [[Navy Cross (United States)|Navy Cross]].

== USS ''Stickell'' (DD-888) ==
===1945&ndash;1950===
''Stickell'' (DD-888) was laid down on 5 January 1945 at Orange, Texas, by the [[Consolidated Steel Corporation]]; launched on 16 June 1945; sponsored by Miss Sue Stickell; and commissioned on 31 October 1945, Comdr. Francis E. Fleck in command.

Assigned to the [[United States Atlantic Fleet|Atlantic Fleet]], ''Stickell'' operated under Commander, Amphibious Training, [[Galveston, Texas]], for a month, 10 December 1945 to 11 January 1946. She then conducted [[Shakedown (testing)|shakedown]] training out of [[Guantánamo Bay]], [[Cuba]], before arriving in [[Charleston, South Carolina]], on 11 March for post-shakedown availability. She shifted to [[Norfolk, Virginia]], on 21 April and, until 6 May, supported carrier qualifications from that port with {{USS|Kearsarge|CV-33|3}}. She then screened ''Kearsarge'' to Guantanamo Bay and, from there, to the [[Panama Canal]]. She returned to Norfolk on 13 June. Two days later, she got underway for the west coast. Heading via the Panama Canal, she reached [[San Diego]], California, on 29 June and joined Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 11. Over the next four and one-half years, ''Stickell'' made three cruises to the [[Far East]] to serve with the [[United States Seventh Fleet|7th Fleet]]. During these deployments, she visited the [[Philippines]], the [[Mariana Islands|Marianas]], [[Japan]], [[China]], and [[Okinawa]]. After each tour of duty in the western Pacific, she returned to duty along the west coast and in Hawaiian waters. Drills and exercises occupied the bulk of her time during the postwar period. 

===Korea, 1950&ndash;1952===
On 6 November 1950, ''Stickell'' completed overhaul at [[Mare Island Naval Shipyard]] and sailed for the [[Korean War]] Zone with DesDiv 52. She made [[Sasebo, Nagasaki|Sasebo, Japan]], on the 27th and, three days later, joined the screen of [[Task Force 77 (U.S. Navy)|Task Force (TF) 77]]. The destroyer's first Korean War tour lasted until 20 July 1951. During that deployment, she operated with the fast carriers off the southern and eastern coasts of Korea, participated in anti-submarine warfare exercises off [[Yokosuka, Kanagawa|Yokosuka, Japan]], conducted shore bombardments of the [[Kimchaek|Songjin]]-[[Wonsan]] area and patrolled the waters off Shingjin, Yong-do, and [[Chongjin]] for enemy small craft. In addition, she landed Republic of Korea intelligence teams on hostile shores: and she rescued three air crewmen while on lifeguard duty for the carriers. On 20 July 1951, she headed east toward the United States and arrived in San Diego, California, on 4 August.

For almost seven months, ''Stickell'' remained on the west coast, conducting training operations out of San Diego. On 26 January 1952, she put to sea for the Far East once again. After stopping at Yokosuka from 19 to 23 February, she began her second combat tour in Korean waters. Between 23 February and 19 March, she operated with TF 77 off the coast of Korea and made three shore bombardments; one off Yong-do on 28 February with [[heavy cruiser]] {{USS|Rochester|CA-124|3}}; one at the bombline on 5 March; and one off Singchong-Ni on 11 March with {{USS|Saint Paul|CA-73|3}}. On the 19th, ''Stickell'' and the rest of DesDiv 52 joined the United Nations blockading and escort force, Task Group (TG) 95.2. As the bombardment and patrol element, ''Stickell'' not only blockaded [[Hŭngnam]], but also delivered interdiction and shore bombardment fire.

After bombarding Wonsan Harbor on 31 March, she rejoined TF 77 on 1 April and retired with that force to Yokosuka. She remained at Yokosuka during the first two weeks in April; then resumed support for TF 77 air strikes and intermittent shore bombardments. She was in Yokosuka from 29 May to 18 June for dry-docking and repairs before conducting a brief operation along Korea's east coast, including a night landing in the vicinity of Pohang Dong. ''Stickell'' cleared the area on 23 June with DesDiv 52 for exercises out of [[Nakagusuku Bay|Buckner Bay]], Okinawa. The division returned to Yokosuka on 5 July and, on the 6th, was underway again to visit [[Hong Kong]] and to patrol the [[Taiwan Strait]]. She rendezvoused with Carrier Division 3 on the 14th and, with TG 50.3, conducted operations in the Philippines and in the [[South China Sea]], before returning to the Taiwan area to rejoin TF 77 on the 27th. After further operations off the eastern coast of Korea, she entered Yokosuka on 6 August and, four days later, sailed for return to the United States.

===1953&ndash;1962===
''Stickell'' arrived in San Diego on 26 August and remained there until 13 December, when she was decommissioned at [[Long Beach Naval Shipyard|Long Beach]] to begin conversion to a [[radar picket|radar picket destroyer]] (DDR). On 2 September 1953, ''Stickell'' (DDR-888) was recommissioned at Long Beach, Comdr. James Boyd in command. Following training out of Long Beach, she joined DesDiv 21 at San Diego on 18 January 1954. Two days later, she and her division headed for the western Pacific. This deployment consisted primarily of hunter-killer training and Taiwan Strait patrol. On 1 June, she departed Sasebo on a voyage to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Along the way, she visited Hong Kong, [[Singapore]], [[Ceylon]], [[Kenya]], [[South Africa]], [[Brazil]], and [[Trinidad]], She reached [[Norfolk, Virginia]], on 10 August 1954 and joined DesDiv 262 of the Atlantic Fleet.

For the next nine years, ''Stickell'' served the Atlantic Fleet as a radar destroyer. Between 1954 and 1958, she went through two complete training cycles, including yard overhauls, Mediterranean deployments, refersher training, and [[NATO]] and Atlantic Fleet exercises. She received the latest in electronic equipment during her 1958 overhaul; and, soon thereafter, she was outfitted with an experimental data processing and weapons analysis system. In 1961, she earned the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer force Antiair Warfare Trophy. Her seven-month Mediterranean cruise in 1962 was highlighted by an excursion into the [[Black Sea]]. In the fall of 1962, ''Stickell'' participated in the [[Cuban Missile Crisis|Cuban Quarantine]] and showed great efficiency by departing Norfolk on very short notice to assume her station.

===1963&ndash;1965===
In May 1963, she entered the [[Philadelphia Naval Shipyard]] for a [[Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization]] (FRAM) overhaul. ''Stickell'' surrendered her anti-aircraft warfare electronics equipment in return for the latest in ASW gear, including [[ASROC]] missiles and [[QH-50 DASH|DASH]] drone helicopters. Early in 1964, she rejoined the Atlantic Fleet in Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 12 as a straight DD. Home ported at [[Naval Station Newport|Newport, Rhode Island]], she became the flagship of DesDiv 122. Following refresher training in April, she became a unit of the midshipman training squadron and made a cruise to northern European ports in June and July. From August to November, she served with the Atlantic Anti-submarine Warfare Forces; then she deployed to the Mediterranean until March 1965.

She returned to Newport and, in April, shifted to Norfolk to complete her DASH outfitting. In June, ''Stickell'' joined TF 124, in supporting United States and other [[Organization of American States|OAS]] forces operating in the [[United States 1965 Occupation of the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic during the 1965 upheavals]] in that country. After five weeks of patrolling, she entered the [[Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation]] shipyard at [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], for a six-week overhaul. In October, she took station off the west coast of Africa to participate in the recovery of [[Gemini 6]]. However, the mission was scrubbed, and ''Stickell'' returned, via [[Martinique]], to Newport. In November and early December, she participated in amphibious exercises at [[Vieques, Puerto Rico|Vieques Island]], near Puerto Rico; then returned to Newport.

===Vietnam, 1966===
On 19 January 1966, ''Stickell'', along with the other units of Destroyer Squadron 12, departed Newport for duty with the 7th Fleet in the Far East. After transiting the Panama Canal and brief stops at San Diego and Pearl Harbor, the ship commenced wartime operations in the South China Sea in support of the Republic of South Vietnam. While attached to the 7th Fleet, ''Stickell'' was assigned to Search and Rescue (SAR) and helicopter inflight refueling duties in the [[Gulf of Tonkin]]; [[plane guard]]ing for various attack carriers, especially {{USS|Ranger|CVA-61|3}}; and [[Naval gunfire support|gunfire support]] duties. During the deployment, the ship visited the following Far East ports: [[Kaohsiung]], [[Taiwan|Formosa]]; Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines; Hong Kong; and [[Naha, Okinawa]]. En route back to Newport — completely circumnavigating the world — ''Stickell'' visited [[Port Dickson]], [[Malaya]]; [[Kochi, India|Cochin, India]]; and [[Aden]]. She transited the [[Suez Canal]] and touched at [[Athens]], Greece; [[Palma, Majorca|Palma, Mallorca]]; and [[Gibraltar]]. The ship returned to Newport on 17 August 1966.

===1966&ndash;1968===
In October 1966, ''Stickell'' entered the [[Boston Naval Shipyard]] for overhaul. She emerged in February 1967 and headed toward [[Guantánamo Bay]] for refresher training. ''Stickell'' then headed for [[Culebra, Puerto Rico|Culebra Island]] where she qualified as a naval gunfire support ship. After a short inport period, ''Stickell'' deployed on a four-month ASW cruise. During the northern European segment of the cruise, ''Stickell'' visited [[Bergen]], Norway; [[Aarhus]], Denmark; [[Sundsvall]], Sweden; and [[Thurso]], Scotland. She operated with ships and aircraft from the navies of [[Royal Norwegian Navy|Norway]], [[Royal Danish Navy|Denmark]], [[German Navy|West Germany]], [[Royal Navy|Great Britain]], and [[French Navy|France]]. ''Stickell'' then entered the Mediterranean Sea and joined the 6th Fleet. She operated with {{USS|Essex|CVS-9|3}} and several other destroyers as a "pouncer" ASW Task Force. While in the Mediterranean, ''Stickell'' visited [[Naples]], Italy; [[Valletta]], Malta; and [[Palermo]], Sicily. On 19 September 1967, she steamed past [[Brenton Reef Light]] and was home again.

Before the end of the year, ''Stickell'' participated in two ASW exercises. The first, "Canus Silex," a combined Canadian-United States ASW exercise and the second, "Fixwex India." By February 1968, ''Stickell'' was preparing for a visit to the Caribbean and her part in "Springboard 68." After leaving frozen Newport behind, ''Stickell'' participated in a variety of training operations designed to sharpen her crew's already finely honed efficiency. Following "Springboard", she acted as sonar training ship at the [[Fleet Sonar School|Fleet Antisubmarine Warfare School]] at [[Key West]], [[Florida]].

The next several months were spent preparing for ''Stickell''{{'}}s next deployment. On 2 July 1968, ''Stickell'' left Newport for a six-month, 13-nation cruise of the Indian Ocean as part of the Navy's [[Middle East Force]]. She visited [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]; [[Recife]], Brazil; [[Luanda]], Angola; [[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]], Mozambique; [[Port Louis]], Mauritius; [[Kochi, India|Cochin]], India; [[Karachi]], Pakistan; [[Bahrain]]; [[Massawa]], Ethiopia; [[Mombasa]], Kenya; [[Assab]], Ethiopia; [[Bandar Abbas]], Iran; [[Bushehr]], Iran; [[Kuwait]]; and [[Dakar]], Senegal — touching some ports more than once. While in the [[Persian Gulf]] area, ''Stickell'' participated in the international naval exercise "Middlinx XL". Together with units of the United States, British, and Iranian navies, ''Stickell'' once again demonstrated her readiness in the fields of anti-submarine and anti-aircraft warfare. ''Stickell'' returned home on 10 January 1969.

===1969&ndash;1972===
Over the next three years, ''Stickell'' alternated deployments with operations off the east coast of the United States and in the Caribbean Sea. She was deployed to the Mediterranean again from September 1969 until late March 1970, when she returned to Norfolk, After post-deployment leave and upkeep, she headed to [[Davisville, Rhode Island]], on 18 May for a month of hull repairs. Back in Norfolk again on 20 June, she remained there, except for two brief operations with {{USS|John F. Kennedy|CVA-67|3}} in July, until 9 November when she got underway to off-load ammunition at [[Naval Weapons Station Yorktown|Yorktown]], in preparation for drydocking at [[Newport News, Virginia]], from 13 November until 7 December. For the remainder of the year, she prepared for deployment to the [[Indian Ocean]]. Her second deployment with the Middle Eastern Force began on 7 January 1971, when she put to sea from Norfolk and ended on 29 June, upon her return to Norfolk. In the meantime, she visited ports in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Iran, India, Pakistan, Kenya, and Senegal.

At the end of this, her last, deployment, ''Stickell'' remained in the [[Virginia Capes]] area - for the most part at anchor or in port. She spent most of the remainder of 1971 and the first half of 1972 preparing for decommissioning and transfers to the government of Greece. On 1 July 1972, ''Stickell'' was decommissioned and struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register|Navy list]]. Immediately thereafter, the [[Hellenic Navy|Greek Navy]] took possession of her and recommissioned her as '''''Kanaris'' (D-212)'''.

==Awards==
''Stickell'' (DD-888) earned six battle stars for Korean War service and one for service in the Vietnam War.

==See also==
==== Some of my Book transcriptions on Wikisource ====

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_Thomas_Jefferson]
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maury,_Reverend_James_vs_Henry,_Patrick_--_%22The_Parson%27s_Opinion_Of_The_Parson%27s_Cause%22] Reverend James Maury vs Patrick Henry (Penny Parson's Cause)

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrative_Of_The_United_States_Expedition_To_The_River_Jordan_And_The_Dead_Sea] Narrative Of The United States Expedition To The River Jordan And The Dead Sea

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maury,_Matthew_Fontaine,_USN,_1853_--_Brussels_--_First_International_Maritime_Conference_Held_For_Devising_An_Uniform_System_Of_Meteorological_Observations_At_Sea.]
Matthew Fontaine Maury 1853 Brussels -- First International Maritime Conference Held At Brussels  1853 For Devising An Uniform System Of Meteorological Observations At Sea. Official Report August And September 1853.

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maury_-_Naval_Observatory_-_Virginia_Historical_Society]
Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury of the Naval Observatory - Virginia Historical Society

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marin_H._Jansen]
Rear-Admiral Marin H. Jansen [Henri,] of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This brilliant man was a very close friend to and co-worker with Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. All honour due to him! History remembers these men. 

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Valley_of_the_Amazon,_Vol.I]
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Lt. Wm. Lewis Herndon Vol.I

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Valley_of_the_Amazon_vol.2_by_Lt._Lardner_Gibbon]Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Lt. Lardner Gibbon Vol.II

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/John_Walker_Maury_by_William_Arden_Maury]
John Walker Maury A Sketch of his Life and Lineage by his son William Arden Maury

[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Virginia_Military_Institute%E2%80%94Building_and_Rebuilding]
Virginia Military Institute, It's Building and Rebuilding. Author: General Francis Henney Smith, the Superintendent of V.M.I.

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| align=center | July 21, 1861 || First Manassas || [[First Battle of Bull Run|First Bull Run]]
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| align=center | January 19, 1862|| [[Battle of Mill Springs|Mill Springs]] || Logan's Cross Roads
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| align=center | March 7 – 8, 1862|| Elkhorn Tavern || [[Battle of Pea Ridge|Pea Ridge]]
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| align=center | April 6 – 7, 1862 || [[Battle of Shiloh|Shiloh]] || Pittsburg Landing
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| align=center | May 31 – June 1, 1862 || Fair Oaks  || [[Battle of Seven Pines|Seven Pines]]
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| align=center | June 27, 1862 || [[Battle of Gaines' Mill|Gaines's Mill]] || Chickahominy River
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| align=center | August 29 – 30, 1862|| Second Manassas	|| [[Second Battle of Bull Run|Second Bull Run]]
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| align=center | September 1, 1862 || Ox Hill || [[Battle of Chantilly|Chantilly]]
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| align=center | September 14, 1862 || Boonsboro|| [[Battle of South Mountain|South Mountain]]
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| align=center | September 17, 1862 || Sharpsburg || [[Battle of Antietam|Antietam]]
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| align=center | October 8, 1862|| [[Battle of Perryville|Perryville]] ||Chaplin Hills
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| align=center | Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 2, 1863 || Murfreesboro	 ||[[Battle of Stones River|Stones River]]
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| align=center | April 8, 1864 || [[Battle of Mansfield|Mansfield]] || Sabine Cross Roads
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| align=center  | September 19, 1864|| Winchester ||  [[Battle of Opequon|Opequon]]
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==Trivial Matter ? ==

Paraphrased comment about administration stated by Jimbo Wales in Feb 2003, referring to administrators as sysops:

{{Quotation|<p>I just wanted to say that becoming a sysop is *not a big deal*.</p><p>I think perhaps I'll go through semi-willy-nilly and make a bunch of people who have been around for awhile sysops.'''  I want to dispel the aura of "authority" around the position.'''  It's merely a technical matter that the powers given to sysops are not given out to everyone.</p><p>I don't like that there's the apparent feeling here that being granted sysop status is a really special thing.</p>|Jimbo Wales|[http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-February/001149.html wikimedia.org archive entry], 

[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/1125/ gmane archive entry]}}
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== Research ==

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<b><big>Josiah Perkins Creesy, Jr. (1814-1871)</big></b>
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<b><big>Lieut. Lardner Gibbon</big></b>
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Lardner Gibbon, USN; Midshipman, 22 December, 1837. Passed Midshipman, 29 June, 1843. Master, 10 April, 1851. Lieutenant, 5 December, 1851. Resigned 15 May, 1857. Lardner Gibbon is one of three brothers related to USA General John Gibbon, a man who was disowned by his Southern family during the Civil War. The other brothers served in the Confederacy. It is one of those sad situations of a family divided and "brother against brother." Genl John Gibbon's parents also sided with the Confederacy and lived in the South.</p>  
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http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-g.htm
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<b>EXPLORATION OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON VOL. II by Lieut. Lardner Gibbon. </b>
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Valley_of_the_Amazon_vol.2_by_Lt._Lardner_Gibbon
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