USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931)

November 9, 1955 - November 5, 1982

4,619 tons

127,50 meters

13.80 meters

6.7 meters

324

Two steam turbines, 70,000 hp, two screws

The USS Forrest Sherman ( DD -931 ) was a destroyer in the United States Navy and lead ship of the Forrest Sherman class. She is the first ship was named after Admiral Forrest P. Sherman.

History

Construction and commissioning

Ordered on 10 March 1951 as a destroyer since the Second World War, the ship on 27 October 1953 it was laid at Bath Iron Works in Kiel. The launch took place on 5 February 1955, following the baptism by the widow of its namesake. On November 9, 1955, the ship was then placed in service with the U.S. Navy.

Office hours

The destroyer operated the first few years, especially in the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. In 1958 she was the first ship of her class, which circled the globe within three months. In the 60s, she was then in turn mostly in the Mediterranean way. In 1968 the ship was modernized and equipped with new communications equipment. In the 70 years she took part in operations in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic as well as several exercises and joint operations with the navies of the Central American states. At the beginning of the 80's took the destroyer, along with the USS Mullinnix, rides off Africa's east coast. In 1982, he was then taken out of service. By 1990, Forrest Sherman was assigned to the reserve fleet.

Whereabouts

The ship is currently in the Inactive Ship Facility in Philadelphia ( 39 ° 53 '35 " N, 75 ° 11' 20" W39.893 - 75 189 ). Originally it was to be sold after the removal from the shipping registers to be scrapped, but a non-profit organization strives to preserve the ship as a museum ship in Delaware.