USS Blandy

USS Blandy (DD-943) in 1970
History
United States
Namesake	William H. P. Blandy
Ordered	23 October 1954
Builder	Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard
Laid down	29 December 1955
Launched	19 December 1956
Acquired	20 November 1957
Commissioned	26 November 1957
Decommissioned	5 November 1982
Stricken	27 July 1990
Motto	Pax per potestatem
Fate	Sold for scrap, 11 December 1992
General characteristics
Class and type	Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Displacement	2,800 tons standard. 4,050 tons full load.
Length	407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall.
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draft	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion	4 × 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Foster-Wheeler boilers, Westinghouse steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 × shafts.
Speed	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi. at 20 knots   (8,300 km at 37 km/h)
Complement	15 officers, 218 enlisted.
Armament	3 × 5 in (127 mm) 54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns ; 4 × 3 in (76 mm) 50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 × mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes.

USS Blandy (DD-943) was a

In 1958, Blandy bore the American

In 1961, Blandy won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet.

On October 30, 1962, Blandy tracked Soviet submarine B-130, dropping small charges and following the submarine in an attempt to bring it to the surface. After seventeen hours, the submarine's commander, Captain Nikolai Shumkov, ordered the submarine - at this point running with reduced diesel power and minimal oxygen - to surface.^[1]

In 1968, Blandy was awarded the Arleigh Burke fleet trophy award for all Atlantic Fleet.

On 7 December 1970 BLANDY was transiting the passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, at 2118Z when the nuclear submarine USS JACK SSN 605 took her picture:

Fate

The ship was decommissioned on 5 November 1982 and struck from the Navy List on 27 July 1990.

She was sold for scrap to the

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  On 7 December 1970 BLANDY was transiting the passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, at 2118Z (picture by the nuclear submarine USS JACK SSN 605)
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  Blandy (foreground) at Baltimore prior to scrapping.

See also

• List of United States Navy destroyers

References

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
•  This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

External links

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• navsource.org: USS Blandy
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• USS Blandy DD 943 Association website