SINCLAIR, Alexander, RADM

Deceased

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Service Details

Last Rank
Rear Admiral Upper Half

Last Primary NEC
117X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Submarine Warfare (In Training)

Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer

Primary Unit
1974-1976, USS Leahy (DLG-16)

Service Years
1944 - 1982

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Personal Details

Home State

California

Year of Birth
1927

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Home Town Santa Cruz	Last Address After retiring, he lived in Great Falls, Va., with his wife, Ginny. He died at Arleigh Burke Nursing Center and was burried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Date of Passing Sep 14, 2009

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Rear Admiral Alexander Malcolm Sinclair

Bio......
RADM ALEX SINCLAIR US NAVY - RET.
Home town - Santa Cruz, CA
1944 - 1947 ENLISTED SERVICE
            Boot camp - San Diego.
            Hospital Corps School.
            US NAVAL HOSPITAL WEST PALM , FL. General Ward.
            NAPS (Naval Academy Prep School) sponsor Eddie Ederlatz (Navy football coach).
            Discharged as a Hospital Corpman.

            1948 - 1951 Midshipman USNA
            Entered USNA via fleet appt. Commissioned as Ensign June 1951.

            1951 - 1953 Sea Assignments.
            USS Antietam CVA-36 - WESPAC - Div. officer.
            USS Yorktown CVS-10 - WESPAC - Fire Ctrl officer.
            USS Shangrila CVS-38 - PACFLT - Div. officer
            USS Firecrest AMS-10 - CO - Homeported-Sasebo. Yellow Sea minesweeping ops.

            1954 - 1967 Submarine Assignments
            Submarine school - New London.
            USS Rasher SSR-269 - Wespac - Communications officer.
            USS Baya AGSS-318 - PACFLT - Engineering officer.
            USS Parche SS-384 - Reserve training - Alemeda, Ca - Officer-in-Charge.
            USS Piper SS-409 LANTFLT - XO.
            USS BANG SS-385 LANTFLT - CO - SPEC OPS - Barents Sea.
            COMSUBPAC STAFF - Pearl Harbor - PCO Instructor.

            1968 - 1982 Assignments
            Armed Forces Staff College.
            Pentagon.
            USS Dale CG-19 - WESTPAC - Gufl of Tonkin - XO.
            Pentagon.
            USS Edward McDonnell DE-1043 - LANTFLT - CO.
            USS Leahy CG 16-LANTFLT - Leningrad ship visit - CO.
            Pentagon.
            Selected for Flag Officer.
            Pentagon.
            Commander - Crus/Dest Group 5 - PACFLT - CTF 75.
            Pentagon DCNO (OP 04B)
            Retired - 1982

1961-1962, USS Piper (SS-409)

From Month/Year - / 1961	To Month/Year - / 1962
Unit USS Piper (SS-409) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant Commander	NEC Not Specified
Base, Station or City Not Specified	State/Country Not Specified

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USS Piper (SS-409) Details

Career

Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine [1]
Laid down:	15 March 1944[1]
Launched:	26 June 1944[1]
Commissioned:	23 August 1944[1]
Decommissioned:	16 June 1967[1]
Struck:	1 July 1970[1]
Fate:	Sold for scrap, June 1971[1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Balao class diesel-electric submarine [2]
Displacement:	1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced[2] 2,401 tons (2,440 t) submerged[2]
Length:	311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2]
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2]
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2]
Propulsion:	4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-�?? 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators [2][3] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries [4] 2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors [2] two propellers [2] 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[2] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2]
Speed:	20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced[4] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[4]
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[4]
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[4] 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	400 ft (120 m)[4]
Complement:	10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[4]
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes[4] 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun [4] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Type
Sub-Surface Vessel

Parent Unit
Submarines

Strength
Submarine

Created/Owned By

ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS)

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Last Updated: Jan 19, 2010

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Chain of Command LCDR Sinclair served as Executive Officer on the USS PIPER (SS 409)

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