The USS Comte de Grasse (DD-974)

April 15, 2008 By Tom Murphy Leave a Comment

Following on to our earlier successful auctions of US Naval Ship Commissioning Programs, we have now listed one from the USS Comte De Grasse (DD-974).

The 44 page program was given to guests at the commissioning ceremony held at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The Guest Speaker at the event was the Honorable Francois de Laboulaye, the French Ambassador to the United States. The pamphlet gives the complete program of the day and information on the man that the ship was named after – Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse -who led a French Fleet that agreed to support the American Colonies in their struggle for independence against Great Britain.

This is a wonderful, unique and rare pamphlet that will be an important addition to any US Navy collection.

Take a look.. 1978 USS COMTE DE GRASSE COMMISSIONING CEREMONY PROGRAM

Compte de Grasse

Iâ€™m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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My name is Tom Murphy and I’m becoming more and more a full time Blogger - trying to master this new and dynamic medium called blogging. Back in the late 1990s I found the Internet and was not sure what it was.. or where it was going. I worked at the time for IBM and we had what was called then PROFS - the Professional Office System. I didn’t know it at the time but that was perhaps my beginning interest in blogging. As I learn more and more about Blogging.. and Wordpress.. and my other passion - Ephemera, I hope to be able to blog about it to my followers here on this blogsite. Stay with me for what I hope will be a fun adventure for us all.