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USS Goodrich (DD-831)

Please see below for item level images and donated collections containing photographs of USS Goodrich (DD-831)

USS Goodrich (DD-831) was launched 25 February 1945 by the Bath Iron Works Co., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. Caspar F. Goodrich, widow of Admiral Goodrich and mother of Lt. Goodrich; and commissioned 24 April 1945, Comdr. Dale R. Frankes in command.

After shakedown training in the Caribbean, USS Goodrich (DD-831) transited the Panama Canal 12 November 1945 to support the occupation of Japan. She patrolled between principal Japanese ports until October 1946; then she based at Tsingtao, China, for patrol along the coast of Korea. The destroyer returned to San Francisco 21 December 1946 and departed 7 January 1947 to base at Newport, R.I., as a unit of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Her service included patrol along the Israeli-Egyptian border of the Red Sea in February 1956 to help stem the Mid-East crisis that finally culminated in the nationalization of the Suez Canal. When fighting erupted, USS Goodrich (DD-831) 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. 

USS Goodrich (DD-831) shifted her home port in June 1959 from Newport to Mayport, Fla. 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 8-month modernization overhaul which included complete renovation and latest weapons and shipboard equipment. USS Goodrich (DD-831) was on Project Mercury recovery station 12 February 1962 as Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, USMC, made his successful orbital space flight.

USS Goodrich (DD-831) went on alert again with the 6th Fleet during 24 October to 20 November 1962 when the Navy responded to President Kennedy's call for a quarantine of Cuba 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 5 months, unobtrusively patrolling with the 6th Fleet and taking part in combined naval warfare exercises with units of the Turkish, Greek, British, and Italian Navies. USS Goodrich (DD-831) returned to Mayport 20 December 1966 for upkeep and type training.

For a complete history of USS Goodrich (DD-831) please see its DANFS page.