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IDD- 93l l The lust of the Great Gunships A frontrunner from out of the past, FORREST SHERMAN was considered to be the introduction to a new era in destroyer design and construction when she was commissioned on November 9th, l955.. Lead ship of her class and the first of the post- World War ll destroyers, she was named after Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, a distinguished World War Il flag officer and former 'Chief -of Naval Oper- ations.She was built by Bath lron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine, commissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard, and joined the fleet at flagship of De- stroyer Squadron Ten in Newport, Rhode Island. FORREST SHERMAN had gone through a wide variety of assignments and accomplishments by I979, including the l957 Inauguration of President Eisenhower, circumnavigation of the globe in l958, participation. in the opening ceremonies for the Saint Lawrence Seaway in l959, as well as more business-like operationsduring crises in Lebanon, Venezuela, and Taiwan.After a long upward struggle to bring her back up to her full capabilities, she completed her l8th major overseas deployment in the early months of I979, earning the respect of far newer ships with her reliability and competitive spirit. I She, was an old ship, the Last of the Great Gunships, but she wasn't through yet, not by a long shot . . . And on March l2th, I979 came a new Captain, to add a few new chapters to her life story.