USS Turner Joy

History

United States
Namesake:	Charles Turner Joy
Ordered:	27 January 1956
Builder:	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company
Laid down:	30 September 1957
Launched:	5 May 1958
Acquired:	27 July 1959
Commissioned:	3 August 1959
Decommissioned:	22 November 1982
Struck:	13 February 1990
Motto:	Esse Quam Videri ("To be rather than to be seen")
Fate:	Donated as a museum and memorial to the Bremerton Historic Ships Association and berthed at Bremerton, Washington on 10 April 1991.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,800 tons standard, 4,050 tons full load
Length:	407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall
Beam:	45 ft (14 m)
Draft:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion:	4 × 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Babcock & Wilcox boilers, Westinghouse steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 × shafts
Speed:	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nmi. at 20 knots (8,300 km at 37 km/h)
Complement:	15 officers, 218 men
Armament:	3 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 × mark 10/11 hedgehogs; 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes

USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was one of 18 Forrest Sherman-class destroyers of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956). Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific. She participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington.

Turner Joy was built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle and commissioned at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. Her keel was laid on 30 September 1957. She was launched on 5 May 1958, sponsored by Mrs. C. Turner Joy, and was commissioned on 3 August 1959.

Following a pre-shakedown goodwill cruise to Central and South American ports and shakedown out of San Diego, Turner Joy began, early in 1960, duty as flagship both of Destroyer Squadron 13 (DesRon 13) and Destroyer Division 131 (DesDiv 131). Based at Long Beach, California, she formed part of an antisubmarine warfare (ASW) task group built around Hornet (CVS-12). She conducted exercises along the California coast until 17 May 1960 when she sailed with the task group for the western Pacific.