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) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Forrest P. Sherman USN (1896–1951).

Forrest Sherman was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath, 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.

Forrest Sherman was decommissioned on 5 November 1982, stricken from the NVR Naval Vessel Register on 27 July 1990 and sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy, 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.

Ship was 'recovered' by the Navy and berthed in the Inactive Ship Facility at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. She was eventually put on a list for donation for museum status. In 2006 legislation was signed transferring the ship to a group that plans on moving the ship to Baltimore, Maryland and restore the ship as a museum.