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U.S.S. FORREST SHERMAN
(DD-931)LAST OF THE GREAT GUN SHIPS
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USS FORREST SHERMAN (DD-931) - a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
In Commission 1955 to 1982DD-931 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DD-931 Shellback Initiation | Add a DD-931 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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OCT | 1953 | - | Keel Date: 27 OCT 1953 at Bath Iron Works Bath ME | ||
FEB | 1955 | - | Launch Date: 5 FEB 1955 | ||
AUG | 1955 | - | Shellback Initiation - 13 AUG 1955 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
NOV | 1955 | - | Commissioned: 9 NOV 1955 | ||
AUG | 1956 | - | Shellback Initiation - 13 AUG 1956 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUN | 1959 | - | AUG | 1959 | Great Lakes |
FEB | 1960 | - | Shellback Initiation - 12 FEB 1960 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
OCT | 1961 | - | Shellback Initiation - 19 OCT 1961 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
OCT | 1961 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 OCT 1961 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
OCT | 1961 | - | Shellback Initiation - 9 OCT 1961 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JAN | 1962 | - | SEP | 1963 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1962 | - | SEP | 1963 | Mediterranean |
NOV | 1963 | - | JAN | 1964 | Guantanamo Bay |
MAY | 1964 | - | OCT | 1964 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1966 | - | JUL | 1966 | Mediterranean |
NOV | 1968 | - | JUN | 1969 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1970 | - | MAR | 1970 | Caribbean |
APR | 1970 | - | NOV | 1970 | North Atlantic |
MAY | 1971 | - | JUL | 1971 | Guantanamo Bay |
AUG | 1971 | - | AUG | 1971 | Caribbean |
SEP | 1971 | - | NOV | 1971 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
MAY | 1972 | - | JUN | 1972 | Guantanamo Bay |
JUN | 1972 | - | NOV | 1972 | UNITAS |
JUL | 1972 | - | NOV | 1972 | UNITAS |
AUG | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 13 AUG 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
AUG | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 13 AUG 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
SEP | 1972 | - | DEC | 1972 | UNITAS |
OCT | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 15 OCT 1972 - Pacific Ocean | ||
NOV | 1972 | - | NOV | 1972 | Panama Canal |
JAN | 1973 | - | FEB | 1973 | Caribbean |
OCT | 1973 | - | OCT | 1973 | Change of home port to Norfolk (official) |
MAY | 1974 | - | JUN | 1974 | Guantanamo Bay |
JUL | 1974 | - | JUL | 1974 | Newport RI. 2 week Midshipman training |
NOV | 1974 | - | MAY | 1975 | Mediterranean |
NOV | 1975 | - | MAR | 1976 | SEP 1976 - NOV 1976 Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
JUN | 1976 | - | AUG | 1977 | Change Homeport Norfolk VA to Boston MA Personal Records |
AUG | 1977 | - | AUG | 1977 | Change of Home Port to Charleston S.C. |
AUG | 1978 | - | FEB | 1979 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1980 | - | AUG | 1980 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
APR | 1980 | - | Shellback Initiation - 13 APR 1980 - Indian Ocean | ||
NOV | 1982 | - | Decommissioned: 5 NOV 1982 | ||
MAY | 2015 | - | MAY | 2015 | Brownsyille, Tx. Dismantling |
DD-931 General Specifications
Class: Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Named for: Forrest P. Sherman
Complement: 324 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 2800 tons
Length: 418 feet
Beam: 45 feet
Flank Speed: 32 Knots
Range: 4 500 miles
Final Disposition:On donation hold for museum
USS FORREST SHERMAN (DD-931)
Forrest Sherman (DD-931) was launched 5 February 1955 by Bath Iron Works Corp. Bath Maine sponsored by Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman widow of Admiral Sherman and commissioned 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 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 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 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 11 November.
During the summer of 1959 Forrest Sherman joined in Operation "Inland Sea " the cruise of a task force into the Great Lakes in celebration of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. She served as escort to the Royal Yacht HMS Brittania with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II embarked for the naval review on Lake St. Louis 26 June then sailed on to entertain over 110 000 visitors at Great Lakes ports. Returning to Newport Forrest Sherman took part in coastal exercises with the Atlantic Fleet then underwent minor repairs and alterations in the Boston Naval Shipyard.
More training exercises began in 1960 for the destroyer
and on 21 March she sailed on a 7-month cruise to the Mediterranean and duty with the 6th Fleet. En route home in October
Forrest Sherman came to the aid of the Liberian freighter Allen Christensen who had a severely injured man on board. Taking off the patient in a motor whaleboat at night Forrest Sherman sped him to Bermuda
site of the nearest hospital. The destroyer arrived at Newport on 15 October and some 4 weeks later entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for major overhaul
lasting into 1961.
[Note: The above USS FORREST SHERMAN (DD-931) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS FORREST SHERMAN (DD-931) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]