USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850)

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USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. , 1962
Overview
Keel laying April 2, 1945
Launch July 26, 1945
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning December 15, 1945
Decommissioning 2nd July 1973
Technical specifications
displacement

2425 ts

length

119 m

width

12.5 m

Draft

4.4 m

crew

367

speed

35 kn

The USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850) , named after Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. , was a destroyer of the Gearing class of the United States Navy . It has been a museum ship in Fall River Harbor in Massachusetts since it was retired from the Navy and has the status of a National Historic Landmark .

history

The keel was laid by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation on Staten Island in New York on April 2, 1945. The commissioning under the command of Lieutenant Commander HG Moore took place on December 15, 1945 in Boston . The test drive began on February 4, 1946 and led to the Caribbean . During this time Joseph P. Junior's younger brother Robert F. Kennedy served as a simple seaman on the ship. In April, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. returned to its homeport of Newport, Rhode Island .

In the following years, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. served as the flagship of the destroyer squadron of the 6th Fleet of the United States Navy and as a training ship . From May 20, 1951 to June 13, she participated in the blockade and bombing of Wonsan during the Korean War .

In the time thereafter, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. continued to be part of the 6th Fleet and was involved in numerous maneuvers and training trips worldwide, including the Mercury program from February to April 1961 . From October 22, 1962, she actively supported the sea ​​blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis and on October 26, together with the destroyer USS John R. Pierce (DD-753), stopped the freighter Marucla, which was chartered by the Soviet Union . The subsequent search of the merchant ship registered in Lebanon by a boarding team of the United States Navy was the first of its kind during the naval blockade of Cuba, during the reign of President John F. Kennedy , also a brother of the namesake. In late 1965, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was in the Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 salvage formation .

After retirement in 1973, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. became a museum ship in Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. On September 30, 1976, the ship was added to the National Register of Historic Places . On June 29, 1989, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was recognized as a National Historic Landmark .

See also

literature

  • Chapter 4: USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850) . In James A. Gay: Battleship Cove . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston (SC) 2014, ISBN 978-1-4671-2149-1 , pp. 65-120

Web links

Commons : USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arthur M. Schlesinger : Robert Kennedy and his times. Ballantine Books, Boston 1978, ISBN 0-345-32547-8 , pp. 60, 61
  2. ↑ James A. Gay: Battleship Cove . P. 107
  3. ↑ Jack Raymond: Navy Boards a Freighter, Lets Her Continue to Cuba; Navy Stops Cuba-Bound Ship, Then Permits Her to Proceed . New York Times, Oct. 27, 1962, p. 1
  4. ^ Joseph M. Siracusa: Encyclopedia of the Kennedys: The People and Events That Shaped America (Volume 1: A – H). ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (CA) 2012, ISBN 978-1-5988-4539-6 , p. 421
  5. ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed December 4, 2015
  6. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 14, 2019.


Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′ 20.5 "  N , 71 ° 9 ′ 47.2"  W.