U.S.S. Forrest Sherman
DD-931
1955
(Sea Vee SVX-30)
- Class: Forest Sherman - 18 destroyers of 1952-56
- Displacement: 2,850 tons standard; 4,050 tons full load
- Dimensions: 418' (oa) x 45' x 22'
- Machinery: 4 boliers, geared turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 shafts
- Speed: 33 knots
- Guns: 3-5"/54 DP Mk 42; 4-3"/50 AA guns
- ASW weapons: 2 Hedgehog Mk 10; 4-21" TT
- Complement: 350
- Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
- Keel Laid: 27 Oct 1953
- Launched: 5 Feb 1955
- Commissioned: 9 Nov 1955
- Decommissioned: 5 Nov 1982
- Notes: Lead ship of the first postwar destroyer class and last all-gun destroyers, as built. Of eighteen ships, four were later converted to guided missile destroyers (DDG), giving up the aft two 5" guns for ASROC and a single-arm Tartar launcher. Eight others received an ASW conversion with ASROC replacing the second 5" gun.
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