USS Mullinnix

USS Mullinnix in 1970
History
United States
Name	Mullinnix
Namesake	Henry M. Mullinnix
Ordered	23 October 1954
Builder	Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard
Laid down	5 April 1956
Launched	18 March 1957
Acquired	26 February 1958
Commissioned	7 March 1958
Decommissioned	11 August 1983
Stricken	26 July 1990
Fate	Sunk as a target, 22 August 1992
General characteristics
Class and type	Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Displacement	2,800 tons standard, 4,050 tons full load
Length	407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall.
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draft	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion	4 × 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Foster-Wheeler boilers, Westinghouse steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52,000 kW); 2 × shafts.
Speed	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km)  at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement	15 officers, 218 enlisted.
Armament	3 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 × Mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes.

USS Mullinnix (DD-944) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix USN (1892–1943), who was killed in action during World War II, when the aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-175 and sank southwest of Butaritari Island on 24 November 1943.

Mullinnix was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched by Mrs. Kathryn F. Mullinnix.

Mullinnix conducted patrol duty in the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, participated in the Gemini program recovery operations in March 1966, and served as plane guard for aircraft carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties, and carried out naval gunfire support missions during the Vietnam War.

Mullinix and her sister ship Edson appeared in The Twilight Zone episode "The Thirty-Fathom Grave."

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Website dedicated to the ship
• Website dedicated to the ship
• Website dedicated to the ship's association
• Basic technical parameters and photo gallery