USS Stribling (DD-867)
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 USS Stribling |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 15 January 1945 |
| Launched: | 8 June 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 29 September 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Sunk as target, July 27, 1980 |
| Struck: | July 1, 1976 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3460 tons |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 36.8 knots |
| Complement: | 336 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 6 x 5"/38 DP (3x2), 12 x 40 mm AA, 11 x 20 mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5) |
USS Stribling was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Cornelius Kincheloe Stribling.
Stribling was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 15 January 1945, launched on 8 June 1945 by Mrs. W. Hunter Powell and commissioned on 29 September 1945.
Stribling alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Charleston Naval Shipyard between June 1960 and April 1961, stood watch during the recovery of astronaut John Glenn in February of 1962, participated in Polaris missile firing tests on the Atlantic test range in 1967, and participated in Sea Dragon and Market Time operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam.
Stribling was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 July 1976.
During her final Mediterranean cruise in early 1976, before decommissioning, she was involved in an incident involving a French diesel submarine. While launching a practise ASROC with a dummy warhead, the Stribling crew accidentally fired upon the French submarine instead of the stationary target. Whether the ASROC hit the submarine or not is still classified. Due to utgent deployment requirements during this period, "Stribling" made this last cruise to the Mediterranean with concrete poured into her bilges to stop many hull leaks that had not been repaired.
Additionally, during this cruise, Stribling was equipped with ELINT gear on the helo deck. The University of Texas also installed experimental sonar 'classification' equipment.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
