What guided missile destroyer was launched in 1959 from the shipyard located at a place called Hunters Point?
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USS Mahan (DDG-42) USS "Mahan" (DDG-42), was a "Farragut"-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan USN (1840–1914). The ship was Laid down as DLG-11 by the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 31 July 1957 and launched on 7 October 1959. "Mahan" was sponsored by Mrs. H. P. Smith, wife of Vice Adm. Harold Page Smith, and commissioned on 25 December 1960. "Mahan" was reclassified as a guided missile destroyer on 30 June 1975 and designated DDG-42. USS "Mahan" was decommissioned on 15 June 1993 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day.
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San Francisco Naval Shipyard The San Francisco Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, located on 638 acre of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city.
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Hunters Point Hunters Point or Hunter's Point refers to the following places:
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USS Decatur (DDG-73) USS "Decatur" (DDG-73) is an "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for the former naval officer Stephen Decatur, Jr. This ship is the 23rd destroyer of its class. USS "Decatur" was the 13th ship of this class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and construction began on 11 January 1996. She was launched on 10 November 1996 and was christened on 8 November 1996. On 29 August 1998 she was commissioned at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon.
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HMS Delight (D119) HMS "Delight" was a "Daring"-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1971.
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USS Gantner (DE-60) USS "Gantner" (DE-60/APD-42), a "Buckley"-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Boatswain's Mate Samuel Merritt Gantner (1919-1941), who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands.
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USCGC Blue Shark (WPB-87360) USCGC "Blue Shark" (WPB-87360) is an 87 ft long Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard built by Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana.
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USS Farragut (DDG-37) USS "Farragut" (DDG-37) was the lead ship of her class of guided-missile destroyers (destroyer leaders) built for the United States Navy during the 1950s.
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USS Leahy (DLG-16) USS "Leahy" (DLG/CG-16) was the lead ship of a new class of destroyer leaders in the United States Navy. Named for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, she was commissioned on 4 August 1962 as DLG-16, a guided missile frigate, and reclassified as CG-16, a guided missile cruiser, on 30 June 1975.
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Yellowstone-class destroyer tender The "Yellowstone" class is a class of four destroyer tenders built by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company between 1977 and 1982.
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USCGC Knight Island (WPB-1348) USCGC "Knight Island" (WPB-1348) receives her namesake from the Knight Island in the Prince William Sounds of Alaska. "Knight Island" was in commissioned on April 22, 1992, at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana. "Knight Island" and the other 48 Island class cutter’s construction are based on the internationally known Vosper-Thornycraft design. Her hull is a semi-displacement type monohull made of high strength steel, while the main deck and superstructure are aluminum. "Knight Island" employs an active fin stabilization system to improve her sea keeping abilities. With a top speed in excess of 30 knots and a cruising speed of 26 knots, the ship is capable of enduring unsupported operations for six days and accommodates two officers and sixteen enlisted personnel.
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HMS Bramham (L51) HMS "Bramham" (L51) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down in Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyards Govan, Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942. She has been the only Royal Navy warship to bear the name. She was adopted by the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the Warship Week savings campaign of 1942.
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USS Point Cruz USS "Point Cruz" (CVE-119) was a "Commencement Bay"-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. Originally named "Trocadero Bay" until 5 June 1944 when it was renamed after the Honiara suburb Point Cruz, which was an important location during the Guadalcanal Campaign. She was laid down on 4 December 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards Incorporated, Tacoma, Washington; launched on 18 May 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Earl R. DeLong; and commissioned on 16 October 1945, with Captain Douglas T. Day in command.
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HMS Hunter (1895) HMS "Hunter" was a "Handy"-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company yard in 1895, spent her career in home waters and was sold in 1912.
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USS Kinkaid USS "Kinkaid" (DD-965), named for Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid USN (1888–1972), was a "Spruance"-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Launched in 1974, she was decommissioned in 2003 and sunk in 2004. She was the third "Spru-can" to be built.
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Battle of Sagami Bay The Battle of Sagami Bay was a World War II anti-shipping raid off the tip of Bōsō Peninsula on the night of 22 July 1945. It was the last surface action of the war. Destroyer Squadron 61 (DesRon 61) of the U.S Navy engaged with a Japanese convoy consisting of two freighters escorted by subchaser "No. 42" and minesweeper "No.1". The Americans sank a freighter, "No.5 Hakutetsu Maru" of 800 LT , and damaged another freighter, "Enbun Maru" of 6919 LT . The Japanese escorts were not damaged.
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HMAS Watson HMAS "Watson is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base on Sydney Harbour at South Head, near Watsons Bay in Sydney, New South Wales]], Australia. Commissioned in 1945 (after three years operating as HMAS "Radar), the base served as the RAN's radar training school. In 1956, torpedo and anti-submarine warfare training were relocated to the base, and by 2011, "Watson" was the main maritime warfare training base, as well as providing post-entry education for maritime warfare officers, training for combat system and electronic warfare sailors, and command training.
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USS Floyd B. Parks USS "Floyd B. Parks" (DD-884), named for Major Floyd B. Parks USMC (1911–1942), was a "Gearing"-class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 30 October 1944, launched on 31 March 1945 by Mrs. Floyd B. Parks, widow of Major Parks and commissioned on 31 July 1945.
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Kennebec-class oiler The "Kennebec"-class oilers were sixteen United States Navy medium oilers built during World War II to three related designs at Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard of Sparrows Point, Maryland and Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. of Chester, Pennsylvania, all of which survived the war. Two are still in commercial service as of 2011.
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USS Arleigh Burke USS "Arleigh Burke" (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN (1901–1996), is the lead ship of the "Arleigh Burke"-class guided missile destroyers. She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works company at Bath, Maine, on 6 December 1988, and launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke. The Admiral was present in person at her commissioning ceremony on 4 July 1991, which was held on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.
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USS Diamond Head (AE-19) The USS "Diamond Head" (AE-19) was a U.S. ammunition ship. Launched on February 3, 1945, the ship was built by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, N.C. under a Maritime Commission contract, and sponsored by Mrs. D. Bill. Transferred to the U.S. Navy on March 10, 1945, and converted at Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore, Md. to carry and transfer naval ammunition, the ship was commissioned on August 9, 1945, under the command of Lieutenant Commander F. C. Snow, USNR.
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USCGC Point Slocum (WPB-82313) USCGC "Point Slocum" (WPB-82313) was an 82 ft Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. Since the Coast Guard policy in 1960 was not to name cutters under 100 ft in length, it was designated as "WPB-82313" when commissioned and acquired the name "Point Slocum" in January 1964 when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 ft .