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USS Thomas G. Kelley (DDG-140) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 90th overall for the class. She will honor Captain Thomas G. Kelley (USN, Ret.), who as a then-Lieutenant serving in Vietnam, was awarded the Medal of Honor "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty".
Bath Iron Works: Laid down: 24 May 1943: Launched: 10 October 1943: Commissioned: 30 December 1943: Decommissioned: 30 September 1968: Stricken: 1 October 1968: Fate: Sunk as target off Virginia, 8 October 1969: General characteristics; Class and type: Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer: Displacement: 2,200 long tons (2,235 t) Length: 376 ft 6 in ...
Bath Iron Works 1980–2000 Transferred to Polish Navy as ORP Gen. K. Pułaski, 15 March 2000 George Philip: FFG-12 Short Todd, San Pedro 1980–2003 Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling, 23 January 2017 [55] [56] Samuel Eliot Morison: FFG-13 Short Bath Iron Works 1980–2002
USS John Basilone (DDG-122) is a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke–class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy.The 72nd ship in the class, she is named for United States Marine Corps Gunnery sergeant John Basilone, who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award for valor, for actions during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War. [5]
The Town-class destroyers were a group of 50 destroyers of the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy that were in service during the Second World War.They were transferred from the United States Navy in exchange for military bases in the British West Indies and Newfoundland, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United Kingdom and United States, signed on 2 September 1940.
As finally built, the Clemson class would be a fairly straightforward expansion of the Wickes-class destroyers.While the Wickes class had given good service there was a desire to build a class more tailored towards the anti-submarine role, and as such several design studies were completed, mainly about increasing the ships' range.
Barry was laid down on 15 March 1954 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corporation; launched on 1 October 1955; sponsored by Mrs. Francis Rogers, a great-grandniece of Commodore Barry; and commissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 7 September 1956; Commander Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.,in command.
USS William Charette (DDG-130) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 80th overall for the class. [1] She will be named in honor of Master Chief William R. Charette, a Korean War veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor.