EDWIN P. MARTIN, LCDR, USN
Edwin Martin '29
Lucky Bag
From the 1929 Lucky Bag:
Loss
Edwin was lost when USS Ingraham (DD 444) was sunk on August 22, 1942 by a collision with an oil tanker while on convoy duty off the coast of Nova Scotia. Ingraham sank almost immediately, and depth charges on her stern detonated as she went down. Only eleven men survived.
He was the only Lieutenant Commander aboard; he was likely the ship's executive officer.
Edwin wife was listed as next of kin. He has a memory marker in Kentucky.
Note
Despite multiple sites that list him as a Commander, believe Memorial Hall is correct with Lieutenant Commander. Both the Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps of 1943 and Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps of 1944 — which gives his date of death — list him as LCDR.
The "Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps" was published annually from 1815 through at least the 1970s; it provided rank, command or station, and occasionally billet until the beginning of World War II when command/station was no longer included. Scanned copies were reviewed and data entered from the mid-1840s through 1922, when more-frequent Navy Directories were available.
The Navy Directory was a publication that provided information on the command, billet, and rank of every active and retired naval officer. Single editions have been found online from January 1915 and March 1918, and then from three to six editions per year from 1923 through 1940; the final edition is from April 1941.
The entries in both series of documents are sometimes cryptic and confusing. They are often inconsistent, even within an edition, with the name of commands; this is especially true for aviation squadrons in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Alumni listed at the same command may or may not have had significant interactions; they could have shared a stateroom or workspace, stood many hours of watch together… or, especially at the larger commands, they might not have known each other at all. The information provides the opportunity to draw connections that are otherwise invisible, though, and gives a fuller view of the professional experiences of these alumni in Memorial Hall.
July 1929
Ensign, USS Texas
Others at this command: LT Irving Wiltsie '21, ENS Joseph Flynn '27, ENS William Pye, Jr. '28, and ENS John Collett '29.
Others at or embarked at this command: ENS Warren Graf '27 (United States Fleet).
October 1929
Ensign, USS Texas
Others at this command: LT Paul Thompson '19, LT Irving Wiltsie '21, ENS Joseph Flynn '27, and ENS John Collett '29.
Others at or embarked at this command: ENS Warren Graf '27 (United States Fleet).
January 1930
Ensign, USS Texas
Others at this command: LT Paul Thompson '19, LT Irving Wiltsie '21, ENS Joseph Flynn '27, and ENS John Collett '29.
Others at or embarked at this command: ENS Warren Graf '27 (United States Fleet).
April 1930
Ensign, USS Pensacola
Others at this command: 1LT Stuart King '20 and LTjg Lawrence McPeake '24.
April 1931
Ensign, under instruction, Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island
Others at this command: LTjg August Lentz, Jr. '26, LTjg Eugene Sarsfield '26, and ENS Lance Massey '30.
October 1931
Ensign, USS Pensacola
Others at this command: 1LT Stuart King '20 and ENS Albert Gray '31.
January 1932
Ensign, USS Pensacola
April 1932
Ensign, USS Pensacola
October 1934
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Finance and Supply School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
January 1935
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Finance and Supply School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 1935
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Finance and Supply School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 1935
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Clothing Depot, Brooklyn, New York
January 1936
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Clothing Depot, Brooklyn, New York
April 1936
Lieutenant (j.g.), Naval Clothing Depot, Brooklyn, New York
January 1937
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Wyoming
Others at this command: CAPT Edward Trumble '25 and ENS Edward Worthington '34.
April 1937
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Mindanao
September 1937
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Guam
January 1938
Lieutenant, USS Guam
July 1938
Lieutenant, USS Canopus
January 1939
Lieutenant, USS Canopus
October 1939
Lieutenant, Naval Academy
Others at this command: CAPT James Logan '10, LCDR Raymond Hansen '22, LT Hilan Ebert '26, LT Lion Miles '31, LT Seymour Owens '31, LT Thomas Ashworth, Jr. '31, LTjg Albert Gates, Jr. '32, LTjg Arthur Vorpahl '32, LTjg Edgar Chase '32, LTjg Edwin Hurst '32, LTjg Ernest Hodge '32, LTjg James Marshall '32, LTjg John Fairbanks, Jr. '32, LTjg John Tennent, III '32, LTjg John Speer '32, LTjg Reader Scott '32, and LTjg George Fuller '35.
Others at or embarked at this command: LT James Willis '27 (Postgraduate School, Naval Academy).
June 1940
Lieutenant, Naval Academy
Others at this command: CAPT James Logan '10, LCDR John French '22, LTjg Albert Gates, Jr. '32, LTjg Arthur Vorpahl '32, LTjg Charles Brindupke '32, LTjg James Marshall '32, LTjg John Fairbanks, Jr. '32, LTjg John Tennent, III '32, LTjg John Speer '32, LT Milton Pavlic '32, LTjg Nathaniel Dial '32, LTjg Reader Scott '32, LT Thomas Williamson '32, LTjg Francis Brown '33, LTjg Frederick Purdy '33, LTjg Joseph Bourland '33, and LTjg George Fuller '35.
Others at or embarked at this command: LT James Willis '27 (Postgraduate School, Naval Academy) and 2LT Alfred Gordon '39 (USS Reina Mercedes, Naval Academy).
November 1940
Lieutenant, Naval Academy
Others at this command: CAPT James Logan '10, LCDR John French '22, LT Arthur Vorpahl '32, LT John Fairbanks, Jr. '32, LT John Tennent, III '32, LT Milton Pavlic '32, LT Nathaniel Dial '32, LT Reader Scott '32, LTjg George Fuller '35, and LTjg George Lambert '35.
Others at or embarked at this command: LT James Willis '27 (Postgraduate School, Naval Academy) and 2LT Alfred Gordon '39 (USS Reina Mercedes, Naval Academy).
April 1941
Lieutenant, Naval Academy
Others at this command: CAPT James Logan '10, LCDR John French '22, LT Arthur Vorpahl '32, LT John Fairbanks, Jr. '32, LT John Tennent, III '32, LT Milton Pavlic '32, LT Nathaniel Dial '32, LT Reader Scott '32, and LTjg George Fuller '35.
Others at or embarked at this command: LT James Willis '27 (Postgraduate School, Naval Academy).
Class of 1929
Edwin is one of 29 members of the Class of 1929 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
