USS Maddox (DD-731)
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 United States
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| Name: | Maddox |
| Namesake: | William A. T. Maddox |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 28 October 1943 |
| Launched: | 19 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 2 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | c.1969 |
| Struck: | 2 July 1972 |
| Identification: | DD-731 |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan in 1973 |
 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS 'Bo Yang |
| Acquired: | 6 July 1973 |
| Identification: | DD-10 |
| Reclassified: | DDG-910 |
| Struck: | 1985 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Naval Weapons school and then scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,200 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
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| Speed: | 34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 officers and men |
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USS Maddox (DD-731), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer was named for Captain William A. T. Maddox, of the United States Marine Corps. She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine on 28 October 1943, launched on 19 March 1944 by Mrs. Harry H. Wilhoit, granddaughter of Captain Maddox, and commissioned on 2 June 1944.
Maddox screened the ships of the Fast Carrier Task Force during strikes against enemy targets in the western Pacific where she was struck by an enemy Japanese kamikaze aircraft off Formosa on 21 January 1945. She also covered the Marine landings at Okinawa, and operated with the 7th Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War. Maddox participated in the Blockade of Wonsan, an 861-day siege bombardment of the city.
After 1953, she alternated operations along the west coast of the United States and in Hawaiian waters, with regular deployments to the western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet. Maddox departed Long Beach 13 March 1964. At first steaming with fast carrier groups in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, she headed south 18 May and established patrol off the coast of South Vietnam. During August she was involved in a skirmish with North Vietnamese torpedo boats, the Maddox incident, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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