USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931)
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| Namesake: | Forrest P. Sherman |
| Ordered: | 10 March 1951 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1953 |
| Launched: | 5 February 1955 |
| Commissioned: | 9 November 1955 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 November 1982 |
| Struck: | 27 July 1990 |
| Fate: | materials removed by other museum ships in June, 2011 |
| Status: | Sold for scrapping 15 December 2014 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Forrest Sherman-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2800 Tons Standard, 4050 Tons full load as built, up to ~4600 Tons later |
| Length: | 418 feet (127.4 meters) |
| Beam: | 45 feet (13.7 meters) |
| Draft: | 20 feet (6.1 meters) as built, 22 feet (6.7 meters) later mod. |
| Propulsion: | 4 1200 psi boilers, 2 geared steam turbines; 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots |
| Range: | 4,500 miles @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 324 |
| Armament: | 3x Mk-42 DP 5-inch/54 caliber guns in single turrets, 2 Dual 3-inch/50 caliber AA guns, Dual Hedgehog Launchers, 4 single 21-inch tubes amidships as built. Mk-32 ASW torpedo tubes in two triple mounts later |
| Aircraft carried: | None; DASH planned for DDG conversions |
USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Forrest P. Sherman USN (1896–1951).
Forrest Sherman was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath, Maine on 27 October 1953, launched on 5 February 1955 by Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman, widow of Admiral Sherman and commissioned on 9 November 1955, Commander R. S. Crenshaw in command.
After a year of initial training and fitting out, Forrest Sherman arrived at her home port, Newport, R.I., 15 January 1957. Two days later she sailed for Washington, D.C., where she was open for public visiting during the week of the second inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. From Newport, Forrest Sherman sailed on training and fleet exercises along the east coast and in the Caribbean, until the summer of 1957, when she took part in the midshipman cruise to South America and the International Naval Review in Hampton Roads on 12 June.
On 3 September 1957, Forrest Sherman sailed for NATO Operation Strikeback, screening a carrier striking group in exercises off Norway. She called at Plymouth, England, and Copenhagen, Denmark, before returning to Narragansett Bay on 22 October. In preparation for her first deployment to the Mediterranean, the destroyer took part in amphibious exercises off Puerto Rico in July 1958, and arrived at Gibraltar on 10 August. She patrolled the eastern Mediterranean through the rest of the month, then sailed to join the 7th Fleet in its operations off Taiwan in support of the threatened islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Sailing eastward to complete a cruise around the world, Forrest Sherman returned to Newport on 11 November.
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