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Giffen, Robert Carlisle (Ike), VADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town West Chester, PA
Last Address Annapolis, MD
Date of Passing Dec 12, 1962
Location of Interment U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery and Columbarium (VLM) - Annapolis, Maryland
Navy Cross
Awarded for Actions During World War I
Service: Navy
Division: U.S.S. Trippe
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Commander Robert Carlisle Giffen, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. TRIPPE, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, in escorting and protecting vitally important convoys of troops and supplies through these waters, and in offensive and defensive action, vigorously and unremittingly prosecuted against all forms of enemy naval activity during World War I.
LT Fred Halstead Poteet May 12 1916 - Jan 5 1917
LCDR Robert Alden Dawes Dec 1917 - May 1918
LCDR Emory Fitch Clement ?
LCDR James Lemuel Holloway Jr. ? (Later ADM)
May 4, 1917 - The first U.S. warships reached the European theater at Queenstown, Ireland. Commander Joseph K. Taussig's Destroyer Squadron 8 included USS Wadsworth (DD 60), USS Conyngham (DD 58), USS Davis (DD 65), USS McDougal (DD 54), USS Porter (DD 59), and USS Wainwright (DD 62). Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, the British commander asked Taussig when his squadron would be ready for service, he replied, " We are ready now, sir."