USS Bigelow (DD-942)
_at_sea_in_January_1967.jpg) USS Bigelow (DD-942) |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | destroyer |
| Keel laying | July 6, 1955 |
| Launch | 2nd February 1957 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
Nov. 8, 1957 - |
| Whereabouts | sunk |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
4,619 tons |
| length |
127.50 meters |
| width |
13.80 meters |
| Draft |
6.7 meters |
| crew |
324 |
| drive |
Two steam turbines, 70,000 hp, two screws |
The USS Bigelow (DD-942) was a destroyer in the United States Navy and belonged to the Forrest Sherman class . The ship served in the US Navy from 1957 to 1982. It was named after the Navy soldier Elmer Charles Bigelow, who died on the USS Fletcher .
history
The destroyer was laid down on July 6, 1955 at Bath Iron Works in Bath , Maine , launched on February 2, 1957, and commissioned with the Navy on November 8, 1957. Mission trips took the ship off the coast of Vietnam , In March 1965, the Bigelow belonged to the salvage fleet for the Gemini 3 landing capsule. During another mission off the Vietnamese coast, an explosion occurred in one of the gun turrets, in which six sailors were wounded. The ship had to remain in dry dock for a long time for overhaul. In 1977 the prototype of the Phalanx CIWS was tested on the destroyer.
On November 5, 1982, the Bigelow was decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet, on June 1, 1990 the ship was then finally deleted from the ship's registers. In 1993 the Navy sold the former destroyer for scrapping, but bought it back in 1996. On April 2, 2003, the ship was finally sunk as a target ship.
Web links
- Pictures of the Bigelow at navsource.org (engl.)
- USS Bigelow at destroyersonline.com (Eng.)