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1944 1954
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COMMISSIONING CEREMONIES mc ] Launching ceremonies at Bath, Maine. First crew of DENNIS J. BUCKLEY, Commissioning Day.
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1 « --!i»r?r-i »« ' : ' i ' i:- 757 The USS DENNIS J. BUCK- LEY (DD-808), a destroyer of the 2,300-ton GEARING class, was built in the yards of the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. Her keel was laid July 24, 1944, and she was launched Decem- ber 20th of the same year. The BUCKLEY was placed in com- mission at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1945. Since commissioning, the DENNIS J. BUCKLEY has served in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean Fleet. She has transited the Panama ( a- nal four times and made one around-the-world cruise. She served as the flauship for three flifferent officers. Some of the deeds wliich liiuhllKht BUCKLEY ' S record include tli ' role she; playtHi in evacuating civilian p(!rsonnt;l from Tsingtao, China, in 1948; rescue of survivors from a Navy patrol plane shot down by Chinese Communists in 1956; and her key role in the Quemoy resupply effort in 1958. In 1960, with the installa- tion of the newest electronic equipment available, vital air defense and air control opera- tions became a part of BU( ' K- LEY ' s role in maintaining world peace as a Radar Picket Destroyer. ( ' ulminatinu a period of two years of continuous opera- tions and over 161,000 miles without an overhaul, DENNIS -I. BUCKLEY was detached from the operating I ' Meet and sent to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to imdergo a l ' ' RAM MK I conversion in 1964. Tlu- conversion added new(!r and more |iot(;nt Anti-Subniarine Warfare weapons and detection equipment. Since the completion of the FRAM conversion, BUCKLEY has operated frequently off the coast of North and South Viet Nam in the role of Naval (Jlun- fire Support Ship and exten- sive SAR and plane guard duties. Currently home-ported in San Diego, DENNIS J. BUCK- LEY is assigned to Destroyer Division El h-VEN as a unit of the Blue Ribbon DESTROYER SQUADRON ONE.
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