USS Goodrich (DD/DDR-831) was a of the United States Navy

United States Navy

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, named for Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich

Caspar F. Goodrich

Caspar Frederick Goodrich was an admiral of the United States Navy, who served in the Spanish-American War and World War I....

 (1847–1925), and his son, Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich

Caspar Goodrich

Caspar Goodrich, son of Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, was born in Italy. Goodrich was appointed a Midshipman from Connecticut on 7 September 1897. He was designated a Naval Cadet 10 June 1901 and reported to Lancaster for duty. From 1903 to 1905 Goodrich served in Maine, Cleveland, and Chicago...

 (Died 1907).

Goodrich was launched

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 on 25 February 1945 by the Bath Iron Works

Bath Iron Works

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 Co., Bath, Maine

Bath, Maine

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; sponsored by Mrs. Caspar F. Goodrich, widow of Admiral Goodrich and mother of Lt. Goodrich; and commissioned

Ship commissioning

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 on 24 April 1945, Commander Dale R. Frankes in command.

Service history

After shakedown training in the Caribbean

Caribbean

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, Goodrich transited the Panama Canal

Panama Canal

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 on 12 November 1945 to support the occupation of Japan. She patrolled between principal Japan

Japan

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ese ports until October 1946; then she based at Tsingtao

Qingdao

' also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8.715 million in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China. Its built up area, made of 7 urban districts plus Jimo city, is home to about 4,346,000 inhabitants in 2010.It borders Yantai to the...

, China

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, for patrol along the coast of Korea

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. The destroyer returned to San Francisco, California

California

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, on 21 December 1946 and departed on 7 January 1947 to base at Newport, Rhode Island

Naval Station Newport

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, as a unit of the United States Atlantic Fleet.

Goodrich overhauled in the New York Naval Shipyard, then served in the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

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 (2 February - 22 May 1948). This was her first of many annual tours with the "steel gray stabilizers" of the 6th Fleet, of actively countering the repeated threats of the Soviet

Soviet Union

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s to overrun the defenseless nations of the Balkans

Balkans

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 and the Middle East

Middle East

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.

Goodrich was reclassified a radar picket

Radar picket

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 destroyer, DDR-831, on 18 March 1949.

Her service included patrol along the Israel

Israel

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i-Egypt

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ian border of the Red Sea

Red Sea

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 in February 1956 to help stem the Mid-East crisis

Suez Crisis

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 that finally culminated in the nationalization of the Suez Canal

Suez Canal

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. When fighting erupted, she sped back to the Mediterranean in November 1956 to protect Americans in that area and serve notice that the United States was determined to contain and terminate the conflict. The destroyer supported the landing of Marines at Beirut, Lebanon

Lebanon

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, on 14 July 1958, as the Navy again met and checked a Communist thrust against the Western democracies.

Goodrich shifted her home port in June 1959 from Newport to Mayport, Florida

Naval Station Mayport

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. Thereafter her annual deployments to the Mediterranean included intensive training in all forms of naval welfare with NATO units and a constant readiness with the 6th Fleet to meet any threat to peace in the Mediterranean region. She interrupted her schedule in January 1960, entering the Norfolk Navy Yard for an eight-month modernization overhaul which included complete renovation and latest weapons and shipboard equipment. She was on Project Mercury

Project Mercury

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 recovery station on 12 February 1962 as Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, USMC, made his successful orbital space flight.

Goodrich went on alert again with the 6th Fleet during 24 October to 20 November 1962 when the Navy responded to President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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's call for a quarantine of Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

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 that choked off the flow of military supplies and enforced the American demands for the withdrawal of the Soviet missile experts and equipment. On 22 July 1966 the destroyer got underway from Mayport on her 13th 6th Fleet deployment. She cruised throughout the Mediterranean for five months, unobtrusively patrolling with the 6th Fleet and taking part in combined naval warfare exercises with units of the Turkish

Turkish Navy

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, Greek

Hellenic Navy

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, British

Royal Navy

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, and Italian Navies

Italian Navy

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. She returned to Mayport on 20 December 1966 for upkeep and type training.

Goodrich was reclassified DD-831 on 1 January 1969, and was decommissioned on 30 November 1969. Goodrich was struck from the Naval Vessel Register

Naval Vessel Register

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on 1 February 1974. She was sold on 12 September 1977, and broken up for scrap.

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