USS Turner Joy
- Address
- Bremerton, Washington
- Website
- ussturnerjoy.org
About USS Turner Joy
USS Turner Joy (DD-951) is one of 18 Forrest Sherman-class destroyers of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956). Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific. She participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident as well as serving as destroyer squadron 13 lead flagship under Captain George S. Grove and Commander Robert Huntley Pidgeon, litigated and inspired the Vietnam Paris Peace Accords, War Powers Resolution of 1973 and ended the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington.
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