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USS Turner Joy, Bremerton Marina, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA
Summary
Significance: USS Turner Joy is the last built of eighteen Forrest Sherman-class destroyers commissioned by the U.S. Navy between 1955 and 1959. Designed as an all-gun warship for anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare, the ship served predominantly in the Pacific. One of the two destroyers involved in the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the ship played a significant role in combat operations during the Vietnam War. Decommissioned in 1983, the Turner Joy has been a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington, since 1991.
Survey number: HAER WA-210
Building/structure dates: 1957-1959 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company
U.S. Navy
Bremerton Historic Ships Association
Joy, Martha Ann
Joy, C. Turner
U.S. Navy Inactive Ships Program, NAVSEA 21, sponsor
Croteau, Todd, program coordinator
Clark, Glenn, sponsor
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
bremerton, 47.56732, -122.63294
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
