USS Barry (DD-933)
July 9, 1956 - November 5, 1982
4,050 tons
127,50 meters
13.80 meters
6.7 meters
314
Two steam turbines, 70,000 hp, two screws
The USS Barry (DD -933 ) was a destroyer Forrest Sherman class of the United States Navy. She is the third ship, which was named after John Barry. She became the lead ship of the class by Barry alterations mid -1960s.
History
Construction and commissioning
The construction contract for the Barry was taken on December 15, 1952, the keel-laying ceremony took place on March 15 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine instead. The launch took place after the baptism by Mrs. Francis Rogers, a great-grandniece of the name, instead of October 1, 1955. On 7 September 1956, the commissioning in the Navy took place.
Office hours
Barry was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet and operated beginning in the Caribbean and in Central America, was then in 1957 moved to the Mediterranean where she operated as part of the 6th Fleet in the carrier battle groups of different aircraft carriers. On 26 September, she escorted the submarine Seawolf, as this graduated with President Eisenhower on board before Newport diving exercises. After further exercises off the U.S. coast, the destroyer returned to the Mediterranean, where he operated with the 6th Fleet. After the coup in Iraq from 14 July Lebanese President Camille Chamoun asked for support of the Americans. The aircraft carrier Saratoga, to the Battle Group Barry belonged at that time, was moved off the coast of Lebanon to support Marines, which should stabilize the situation ashore. In summer 1960 the ship visited during an extended trip to Europe Kiel and other European port cities and undertook jointly with European naval ships large-scale exercises. During the following deployment in the Mediterranean destroyer shadowed as part of the escort ships of the USS Randolph Soviet ships that left the Black Sea toward Cuba. During the naval blockade of Cuba in October 1962 the ship as a guard at the quarantine line was divided, pursued inter alia a Soviet diesel submarine of the Foxtrot class and supervised the search of several merchant ships whose destination was Cuba. In the following years Barry was operating again in the Caribbean and the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean took part in the recovery of the Gemini 4 capsule and was transferred to the Pacific where she operated from 1965 for one year off the coast of Vietnam and American units supported.
After they had completed their 1966 world tour, Barry went on 23 July in Boston dry dock, where for the first time queuing extensive renovation work. Thus, Barry received a new radar and sonar system, which has been tested extensively after undocking. On January 4, 1967, she returned to the dock and was placed formally on 31 January decommissioned. In the following 15 months, the ship was completely rebuilt, received, among other things, an ASROC launcher in place of the second gun and was then placed in April 1968 as the lead ship of the new class, Barry returned to service. The first operations were again held in the Mediterranean, off the Greek coast. The new home port of Barry was Athens, where she was stationed as part of the Forward Deployment Program. By the end of the 70s, the destroyer operated mostly in the eastern Mediterranean, visited in 1978 once again North and Central Europe, including Bremen and Amsterdam. After a visit to Kenya and a final passage through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic, the destroyer was filed on November 5, 1982 out of service and towed to Philadelphia.
Whereabouts
After its decommissioning the ship in autumn 1983 by the tug Apache to Washington was, DC towed. It is since then as a museum ship (38 ° 52 ' 16 "N, 76 ° 59 ' 46 " W38.871 - 76 996 ) in the Washington Navy Yard on the Anacostia River as a visitor attraction. 1990, Barry has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.