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Awarded:
January 23,
1978
Laid
down: March 19, 1980
Launched: February 7, 1981
Commissioned: November 27, 1982
Decommissioned: September 27, 1996
Fate: stricken: February 20, 1998
transferred
to Turkey (grant aid) on April 5, 1999
renamed
TCG Gokceada (F-494); in service in Turkish Navy
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Mahlon Street
Tisdale was born on 6 December 1890, in Wenona, Illinois. He was appointed to
the United States Naval Academy in 1908. He graduated and received a
commission as an ensign in the United States Navy on 7 June 1912.
He joined the battleship North Dakota after graduating from the Naval Academy
and served on that ship until September 1913. He than had duty on the cruiser
Salem, as watch and diversion officer, in operations at Vera Cruz in 1914,
and on the collier Neptune until April 1916. After duty in connection with
fitting out Pennsylvania, he served on board that battleship from her
commissioning on 12 June 1916 until March 1917. When the United States
entered World War I, on 6 April 1917, he was assigned aide and flag secretary
on the staff of the Commander, Patrol Force, Atlantic Fleet. In that capacity
he served at New York and Norfolk, and from August to November 1917 at
Gibraltar. He was then assigned to the staff of the commander of the US Navy
Patrol Squadrons operating in European waters.
After his return to the United States in January 1919, he had duty in
connection with fitting out Hart, and served as executive officer of that
ship from her commission on 16 February 1919 until March 1920, when he was
transferred to Ludlow. In January 1921 he became division radio officer on
the staff of the Commander, Battleship Division Six, Pacific Fleet on board
the Wyoming.
From June 1921 to May 1925 he served as secretary of the Academic Board and
aide to the superintendent of the Naval Academy, then returned to sea as
executive officer of Aroostook. On 23 October 1926, Tisdale assumed command
of the destroyer Farenholt, his first command. He was detached from that ship
in June 1928 and reported the next month as officer in charge of the Navy Recruiting
Station, Los Angeles, California, with additional duty as inspector
instructor of Naval Reserves. He served in that assignment for two years,
until June 1930, when he reported to the aircraft carrier Lexington.
He served as aide to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy from June 1932 until
May 1933. For two years thereafter he was on duty in the Executive Department
of the Naval Academy. From July 1935 until April 1937 he commanded Destroyer
Division Sixteen of Destroyers, Battle Force, US Fleet, and had further sea
duty until March 1941, first as executive officer of the repair ship Regal
before taking command of Vestal and then Chester.
He was designated Commandant of Midshipmen at the US Naval Academy in April
1941 and remained in that assignment for several months after the United
States' entry into World War II. In June 1942 he was ordered to the Pacific
Fleet to serve as commander of Cruisers, Task Force Sixteen. In January 1943
he was designated Commander, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet until January 1944
when he reported for duty as Commandant of the Navy Yard, Mare Island,
California. In September 1945 he was redesignated Commandant, US Naval Base,
San Francisco, California. He served as commander Mare Island Sub Area, US
Naval Base, San Francisco, from February 1947 until relieved of active duty,
pending retirement for physical disability on 1 November 1947.
VADM Tisdale died on 12 July 1972.
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