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L gg, i Captain Josiah Tattnall Y ' f USS TATTNALL DDG-195 Histor USS T TTNALL DDG-195 The Guided Missile Destroyer USS TATTNALL QDDG-19i is the se- cond ship ofthe Fleet to be named in honor of Captain Josiah Tatt- nall, U.S. Navy and Confederate States Navy. Josiah Tattnall was born in 1795 on the family estate, Bonaventure, a few miles south of Savannah, Georgia. His early education was con- ducted in England, and shortly after his return to the United States at the age of fifteen, he was appointed as a midshipman. During the War of 1812, he served aboard the Frigate CONSTELLATION, which was blockaded in Hampton Floads, and on the brig EPEIVER, at Savannah. ln 1831, Captain Tattnall was credited with capturing the Mexican warship MONTEZUMA, which had earlier boarded and robbed an American schooner. In 1846, with his flag aboard the SPITFIRE, his Mosquito Division carried out bombardments of Vera Cruz and the Castle of St. Juan d'Villon, and took the lead in the attack against Tuxpan. ln 1859, as Commander of the East lndia Squadron on board the POWHATAN, Tattnall supported the negotiations of new treaties with China by the Occidental Powers, placing every facility of his fleet at the disposal of the American envoy. At the advent of the Civil War, Captain Tattnall, having returned to the United States, resigned his commission in the U.S. Navy. Tattnall was appointed a Senior Flag Officer of the Georgia Navy, and in 1861, became a Captain in the Confederate States Navy. ln 1862, Tattnall assumed command of the Naval Defense in waters of Virginia, hoisting his flag on the Iron Clad CSS VIRGINIA tex-USS MERRIMACKQ which was burned to prevent her capture when Nor- folk was abandoned in May. He returned to Savannah where he remained until the city was occupied by General Sherman in 1864. The first USS TATTNALL QDD-1251 was commissioned June 26, 1919, and served in World War ll in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. Upon the completion of her conversion to a high speed transport, her classification was changed to ADP-19. TATTNALL earned ,one battle star for' each of the following operations: West Coast of Italy Operations, Invasion of Southern France, and Okinawa Gunto Operations. She was decommissioned December 17, 1945, and her name stricken from the Navy Register on January 8, 1946. The present TATTNALL QDDG-19l was commissioned April 13, 1963, and soon after assumed her duties as a member of the Cruiser-Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Initially homeported in Charleston, South Carolina, a member of Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla SIX, TATTNALL participated in four Mediterranean, and one North Atlantic cruise, along with numerous anti-submarine, missile and gunnery exercises in the Caribbean. In June of 1969, TATTNALL changed her homeport to Mayport. Florida, where she became a member of Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla TWELVE. Since being homeported in Mayport. TATTNALL has par- ticipated in two Northern European cruises, and various Second Fleet exercises in both Atlantic and Caribbean waters. TATTNALL underwent an extensive improvement program during her second regular shipyard overhaul, conducted at the U.S. Naval shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina, which was completed in April, 1971. The major improvement was modernization of the Missile Fire Control System. TATTNALL is 437 feet in length, has a beam of 47 feet, displaCoS 4500 tons, and has a speed in excess of 30 knots. The ship IS manned by an allowance of 19 Officers, and 319 Enlisted Personnel. This versatile ship carries a wide range of destructive power m0l'9 than ships twice her size in World War ll. The primary mission of TATTNALL is to protect task force units from any enemy: in the air, on the surface, or lurking in the depths of the sea. In carrying out her mission TATTNALL utilizes the very latest war- ning and fire control systems to feed information to the various weapons. The TARTAR guided missile TATTNALL's primary am aircraft weapons, capable of destroying supersonic fighters and bombers at great ranges. To counteract the ever dangerous sub- marine, the ASROC fAnti-Submarine Ftocketl may be used with deadly accuracy. Powered by two steam turbines which develop up to 70,000 horse- Poweff and DFODGHGCI by twin screws, TATTNALL has excellent maneuverability, along with high speed, Our mobility is the key to all of these operations, TATTNALL can 90 anywhere that the fleet operates.
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