Edson (DD-946) was launched 4 January 1958 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. M. A. Edson; and commissioned 7 November 1958.
Our nation’s fleet of historic ships grows by one!
Tim Younkman of the Bay City Times writes, “The battle continues to bring the Vietnam-era destroyer USS Edson to the Bay City riverfront. Volunteers and maritime enthusiasts have worked for 13 years to secure a 20th century combat ship as a Bay City attraction. Their efforts paid off when the U.S. Navy granted ownership of the 56-year-old Edson, now in mothballs, to the Saginaw Valley Navel Ship Museum.”
Full article here.
For more about the namesake of the USS Edson, click here.
4 Responses to "USS Edson (DD-946) Update"
Really? “Navel ship museum?” Was that navalhistory.org’s typo or theirs?
I really do like your site and enjoyed reading the blogs.
I found some names of people I knew that were aboard the Edson in 1960-1963 but so far sending e-mails produced nothing they came back undeliverable. Makes me sad I really would like to see or hear from some of my shipmates. Gus Nunez was one, Santiago Trujillo was another?
This is good. I hope someday to visit her again. I lived on her from Feb. of 71 to March of 73. I was a supervisor in CIC during her eight deployment and I really think it was something to experience. I hope she is taken good care of.
If you look at the picture you will find the AN/SPS 70 which is the air search radar, just above it is the AN/SPS 10 which is the surface search radar. I don’t know the height up there but during the 8th deployment West Pac Cruise, we went through a Typhoon which a wave covered the ship and actually ripped the gears below this surface radar completely off. Got us a week in Subic Bay, wooo weeee. Ha!
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