USS Edson (DD-946)
November 7, 1958 - December 15, 1988
4,619 tons
127,50 meters
13.80 meters
6.7 meters
324
Two steam turbines, 70,000 hp, two screws
The USS Edson (DD -946 ) was a destroyer Forrest Sherman class of the United States Navy. The ship served from 1958 to 1988 in the U.S. Navy and was the first ship, which was named after the Marine Corps General and Medal of Honor carrier Merritt A. Edson.
History
Construction and commissioning
The keel laying of Edson took place on December 3, 1956 at Bath Iron Works in Bath instead, the launch took place on January 4, 1958, after the baptism by the widow of its namesake. After further fitting out, the destroyer was placed under the command of Commander Thomas J. Moriarty in service on 7 November 1958. After some training and test drives in the Caribbean and Peru before the destroyer crossed the Panama Canal in early 1959 and was assigned to the new home port of Long Beach of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Use
On January 5, 1960 marked the beginning for further exercises off the California coast, the first Far Eastern deployment of the destroyer, as part of the battle group of the USS Ranger, he participated in a large-scale emergency exercise before Japan. After the end of the first insert in May 1960, the first shipyard stay was followed in July, at the minor defects that had occurred during the first few rides, have been fixed. After a port visit in Portland, Oregon in June 1961 began in August, the next use of Edson in the Western Pacific. In May 1964 and in October 1965 the ship was also as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet in the Far East. During the fifth mission, the Edson was fired upon by North Vietnamese coastal artillery at a patrol off the Vietnamese coast and damaged in the superstructure. The damage is repaired in the United States Naval Base Subic Bay. 1968, 1970 and 1971, followed by other missions off the coast of Vietnam. After the end of the Vietnam War, the destroyer went on operating in the Pacific. During an exercise in December 1974 there was a serious fire in the engine room, but caused no major damage to man and machine.
The early eighties, the Edson in the U.S. Navy Reserve has been allocated, but remained until December 15, 1988 in active service.
Whereabouts
Upon their retirement, the destroyer City was from 1989 to 2004 in the Intrepid Sea- Air-Space Museum in New York as a museum ship next to the USS Intrepid on the quay, after a time in the Inactive Ship Facility at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard the ship is now in " Saginaw Valley Navy and Ship Museum " in Saginaw ( Michigan).