the ship was launched by joseph ofeck's wife on the 12th may, 1945. it was commissioned in september after the japanese had signed the surrender. while thethe water war was still going on. gearing-class, which gave it greater you'll capacity -- fuel capacity. during the korean war, it was blowing up supply chains. >> the destroyers are smaller ships that would defend larger ships and that would travel in a fleet around the aircraft carriers in the battleships. defendtheir jobs is to the aircraft carriers and keep the enemy away we forget sometimes about the last where we had spacecrafts splashing down in the oceans. a fleet would be in the area to pick up the afternoon. -- astronaut. normally a destroyer would come along the capsule and pick up the space capsule. part of theas gemini recovery mission in the early 60's. it never got a chance to pick up a gemini capsule because it was sent to vietnam to fire on begun liners they called it -- on iners.-- the gun l this is where we have the 52 gun mount. this is a five inch, 38 gun mount, which is i-5 inc