USS John Paul Jones (DD-932)
April 5, 1956 - December 15, 1982
4,619 tons
127,50 meters
13.80 meters
6.7 meters
324
Two steam turbines, 70,000 hp, two screws
The USS John Paul Jones ( DD -932 ) was a destroyer in the United States Navy and was part of the Forrest Sherman class. It was named after the sailor John Paul Jones, serving from 1956 in the Navy. Between 1965 and 1967 she was converted into guided missile destroyer modeled after the Decatur - class and received the envelope number DDG -32. The destroyer remained in service until 1982.
History
The John Paul Jones was laid on January 18, 1954 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine on Kiel. The launching ceremony was held on May 7, 1955 instead of the putting on 5 April 1956. From her home port of Newport, Rhode Iceland from the first voyages saw the destroyer in the Caribbean, and to Scotland in the place of birth of its namesake.
1957 joined the first Mediterranean deployment with the Sixth U.S. Fleet, in the fall they then participated in NATO maneuvers in the North Atlantic. The 1958 spent the John Paul Jones in the Caribbean and in the Atlantic off the U.S. coast, in 1959, followed by another operation in the Mediterranean. In 1960, she was operating mostly off the American coast, in the summer, she participated in Unitas maneuvers with South American sky ships. The following year, the ship remained in the Caribbean and participated in several anti-submarine exercises, in April 1962, she was part of the American naval review. During the space flight of Walter Schirra in October 1962, the destroyer was part of the Atlantic salvage fleet, after she participated in the naval blockade around Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis in part. In the first half of 1963 was followed by another operation in the Mediterranean, the rest of the year and the first half of 1964, the ship spent with exercises in front of the home coast. In June 1964, the John Paul Jones went again with the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, 1965, she belonged then to the rescue fleet for Gemini 3 After another Mediterranean deployment in the summer the ship on 20 December 1965 in Philadelphia was decommissioned. In the following year and a half the ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard was converted into a guided missile destroyer.
In March 1967, John Paul Jones was reclassified as DDG -32, the converting and equipping with new radars and a tartare starter was completed in the autumn of the year. It has now been assigned to the Pacific Fleet and operated with the U.S. 7th Fleet. In 1975, the John Paul Jones as part of Task Force 76 in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, in part.
After 26 years of service, the John Paul Jones December 15, 1982 was decommissioned, but until 1986 it remained in the reserve fleet assigned. On 31 January 2001 the gutted hull was sunk during an exercise off the California coast as a target ship for weapons testing.