USS Manley (DD-940)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 10 February 1955 |
| Launched: | 12 April 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 1 February 1957 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 March 1983 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy in Massachusetts on 11 December 1992. |
| Struck: | 1 June 1990 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,800 tons standard.
4,050 tons full load. |
| Length: | 407 feet waterline, 418 feet overall. |
| Beam: | 45 feet. |
| Draught: | 22 feet. |
| Propulsion: | 4 x 1,200 psi Foster-Wheeler boilers, Westinghouse steam turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots. |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots. |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 218 enlisted. |
| Armament: | 3 x 5-inch 54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 x 3-inch 50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 x mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 x 12.75-inch Mark 32 torpedo tubes. |
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USS Manley (DD-940), named for Captain John Manley (1773-1793), was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine and launched by Mrs. Arleigh A. Burke, wife of the Chief of Naval Operations.
Manley patrolled in the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam.
When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington in North Carolina.