USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931)
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| Laid down: October 27, 1953 | |
| Launched: February 5, 1955 | |
| Commissioned: November 9, 1955 | |
| Decommissioned: November 5, 1982 | |
| Fate: on donation hold for museum | |
| Struck: July 27, 1990 | |
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USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931), named for Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman USN (1896-1951), was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer of the United States Navy laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine on 27 October 1953, launched on 5 February 1955 by Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman, widow of Admiral Sherman and commissioned on 9 November 1955. USS Forrest Sherman was decommissioned on 5 November 1982, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 July 1990 and sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy in Massachusetts on 11 December 1992. When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court.
| Forrest Sherman-class destroyer |
| Forrest Sherman | John Paul Jones | Barry | Decatur | Davis | Jonas Ingram | Manley | Du Pont | Bigelow | Blandy | Mullinnix | Edson | Somers | Morton | Parsons | Richard S. Edwards | Turner Joy |
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