USS Edson (DD-946)
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 3 December 1956 |
| Launched: | 4 January 1958 |
| Commissioned: | 3 April 1959 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 December 1988 |
| Fate: | Preserved as a memorial at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum and berthed at New York City on 30 June 1989. |
| Struck: | 31 January 1989 |
| 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, General Electric 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 Edson (DD-946), named for Colonel Merritt Austin “Red Mike” Edson USMC (1897-1955) awarded the Medal of Honor while serving as Commanding Officer of the First Marine Raider Battalion during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on the night of 13-14 September 1942, was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine and launched by Mrs. M. A. Edson.
Edson 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.