Talk:USS Benjamin Stoddert

1982 incident

http://www.ddg8.com/history/years/1982-2/

June 20, 1982 – Destroyers USS Lynde McCormick (DDG 8), USS Turner Joy (DD 951) and the cruiser USS Sterett were fired upon by machine guns from an unidentified vessel after returning from the U.S. – Thai exercise Cobra Gold, ’82. The USS Lynde McCormick DDG-8 returned fire and the foreign vessel fled without further action.

The incident mentioned was off the coast of Vietnam at approx 2am. The Turner Joy was actually hit by a 30cal round in the ward room. the only casualty was the wardroom stereo of the USS Turner Joy. The USS Lynde McCormick did return fire with a deck mounted 50Cal and I believe the USS Sterett lobbed a couple of illumination rounds. Kortoso (talk) 20:19, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Text in this article is apparently copied from: http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b5/benjamin_stoddert.htm Kortoso (talk) 20:26, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Sinking

I have a vague recollection of seeing a photo of the Stoddert sinking, perhaps in Time magazine. I searched on-line, but didn't see anything. Surely someone has pics? Which might be released by the copyright holder.

BTW, a comment on the writing: I found it very hard to tell what year sections of text were about, because the dates had only day and month. It would be helpful to edit in the year every once in awhile. I also found the over-frequent use of "the guided missile destroyer" a bit annoying, but that's just a style issue. Mcswell (talk) 16:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Newsweek article. Periscope - Newsweek

Friend request me on Facebook "Rich Burgess" - I have a picture of DDG-22 sinking

Patrick Surrena mentioned in this article. 68.207.108.17 (talk) 09:30, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Radars & Upgrade

I just saw a picture on Facebook of DDG-20 & DDG-22 with the AN/SPG-53 gunfire control radar replaced by a SPQ-9. Date unknown. Suspect early 1980s. I believe only 3 or 4 ships got such upgrade- original plans were for most of class, but money spend instead on the "Kidd" class DDGs . Wfoj3 (talk) 01:17, 10 February 2026 (UTC)