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Description
This vessel was launched at Bath Iron Works on March 19, 1944.
She was the third destroyer named MADDOX built for the U.S. Navy, and saw active service in World War II, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War.
In 1964 she was one of the destroyers involved in the Tonkin Gulf Incident that led to the escalation of the war. She was an ALLEN M. SUMMER-class destroyer rated at 2,200 displacement tons, length 376 feet. She was decommissioned in 1969.
About This Item
- Title: Destroyer U.S.S. MADDOX (DD-731) under way, 1944
- Creation Date: 1944
- Subject Date: 1944
- Location: Bath, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20.5 cm x 25.5 cm
- Local Code: Neg. No. 05697
- Collection: Photographic Reference Collection, PC-3
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Shipbuilding--Bath (ME)
- Ships, Iron and steel
- Destroyers (Warships)
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
- Korean War, 1950-1953
- World War, 1939-1945
Other Keywords
- Battles
- Economics Industry Shipbuilding
- Maritime Ships and boats Naval
- Military and War Military Service Navy
- ShipsShips, Iron and steel
- Warships
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(207) 443-1316
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