U.S.S. Turner Joy
DD-951
1964
(Argos AS-78)
- Class: Forrest Sherman - 18 destroyers of 1952-56
- Displacement: 2,850 tons
- Dimensions: 418' (oa) x 45' x 20'
- Machinery: 4 boliers, geared turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 shafts
- Speed: 33 knots
- Guns: 3-5"/54 DP Mk 42; 4-3"/50 A.A. guns
- ASW weapons: 2 Hedgehog Mk 10; 4 T.T.
- Complement: 350
- Builder: Puget Sound Bridge & Dredge, Seattle, Washington
- Keel Laid: 30 Sep 1957
- Launched: 5 May 1958
- Commissioned: 3 Aug 1959
- Decommissioned: 22 Nov 1982
- Notes: Gulf of Tonkin Incident, August 3-5, 1964.
Now preserved as museum ship at Bremerton, Washington.
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