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    USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard until transferred to the...
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    Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, planter, judge, and politician from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Active...
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  • and non-fiction author Ships: USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193), Clemson class destroyer in the United States Navy USS Upshur (DD-144), Wickes class destroyer...
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    CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) George, 2005. p.5. George, 2005. p. 465. Turpin and McEwen, 1980. George, 2005. p. 262. Otmar Schäuffelen (2005). Chapman Great...
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  • created twice Cyclone Clare, which struck Western Australia in 2006 USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193), a destroyer traded to the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Clare...
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    USS Monaghan (DD-32) USS Patterson (DD-36) USS Paulding (DD-22) USS Roe (DD-24) USS Trippe (DD-33) Clemson-class destroyers USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) USS George E...
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    One of the Town-class ships achieved lasting fame: HMS Campbeltown (ex-USS Buchanan). In the Commando raid Operation Chariot, Campbeltown, fitted with...
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    By August, while Britain was reaching a low point, US Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy reported from London that a British surrender was "inevitable". Seeking...
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  • the USS Cummings (DD-44). He remained there until he took over command of the USS Monaghan (DD-32) in 1926. Later, he would command the USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193)...
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    one gun exploded, killing six people, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, and injuring others...
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    children borne to plantation owner and politician Littleton Upshur. His elder brother Abel P. Upshur inherited the family plantation and continued their father's...
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    (AO-92/AW-4) USS Abbot (DD-184, DD-629) USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) USS Abele (YN-77/AN-58) USS Abeona (1831) USS Abercrombie (DE-343) USS Aberdeen (1912) USS Abilene...
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    Archived from the original on March 3, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021. "Abel P. Upshur (Destroyer No. 193)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval...
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    until Secretary of the Navy Abel Parker Upshur came to office that the ship was finished. A war scare with Britain led Upshur to order the completion of...
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    of Legaré, Tyler appointed Secretary of the Navy Abel Upshur as his new Secretary of State. Upshur and his adviser, Duff Green, believed that Britain...
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    the Canadian rebellions in the late 1830s with Secretary of the Navy Abel P. Upshur selecting an iron hull partly as a test of practicability of using such...
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  • Norfolk in June. Although both Lt. Hunter and Secretary of the Navy Abel P. Upshur highly praised the vessel, it was later discovered that her engines...
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    anti-annexation Secretary of State Daniel Webster, and on June 23, 1843 appointed Abel P. Upshur, a Virginia states' rights champion and ardent proponent of Texas annexation...
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  • wealthy southern slaveowners and even alleged disunionists, including Abel Parker Upshur and John C. Calhoun. Tyler sent a political adviser, Duff Green, to...
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    the county seat of surrounding Upshur County, Texas, named after Abel Parker Upshur, (1790–1844), another victim of the USS Princeton explosion which had...
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    1841 Fitzgerald, requested the consent of the Secretary of the Navy, Abel P. Upshur, to entered his "servant" (slave), Robert Lucas, as a landsman (in reality...
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  • Castleton, 44-year old Cmdr. Frank H. E. Skyrme, RN (Ret.), in command. "Abel P. Upshur (Destroyer No. 193)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval...
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    President John Tyler selected Henshaw as Secretary of the Navy to follow Abel P. Upshur. During his brief term in office, he addressed shipbuilding problems...
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    during a demonstration aboard the USS Princeton on the Potomac River, killing six, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas...
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    of Stockton's gun, the breech ruptured, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, as well as six others...
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    Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844) who died in the USS Princeton disaster of 1844. His brother U.S. Navy Commander George P. Upshur (1799–1852),...
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    crowd. Instantly killed were: Kennon; Gilmer; the Secretary of State, Abel P. Upshur; Maryland attorney and politician Virgil Maxcy; David Gardiner, a New...
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    appointed Abel P. Upshur, a popular Secretary of the Navy and close adviser, as his new Secretary of State, and nominated Gilmer to fill Upshur's former...
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    City, MI USS Eversole (DD-789) - İnciraltı Sea Museum, İzmir, Turkey USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) - Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA USS Kidd (DD-661)...
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    aboard the USS Princeton when a "Peacemaker" cannon exploded in the process of being fired. While Secretaries of State and Navy Abel P. Upshur and Thomas...
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