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HISTORY OF THE USS FORREST ROYAL (DD 872) The USS FORREST ROYAL was built by Bethlehem Steel, Shipbuilding Di- vision, Staten Island, New York. The keel for this new 2250-ton class de- stroyer was laid on 8 June 1945 and she was launched on 28 June 1946, spon- sored by Miss Katherine Knight Royal, daughter of Rear Admiral Forrest Benton Royal, U. S. Navy, in whose honor the ship was named. Admiral Royal died in the Asiatic Area of coronary thrombosis on 18 June 1945. He was posthu- mously awarded the Gold Star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal for his exceptionally meritorious services in amphibious operations against the Japanese in the Central and Southern Philippines, the Sulu Archipeligo and Borneo . After the ship ' s presentation ceremony the ROYAL was moved to the U.S. Naval Shipyard at Brooklyn, New York, and commissioned there on 29 June 1946. After being fitted out she departed New York on 15 August 1946 for her shakedown cruise at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The ship returned to New York on 22 October 1946 for a post-shakedown availability and left again on 2 December 1946 for Guantanamo Bay. During this tour of duty the ROYAL conducted a series of special tests of a confidential nature for the Bureau of Ships. The tests were satisfactorily completed on 14 December 1946 and the ship returned to New York City, New York, for the Christmas holiday period. The ship left New York on 10 January 1947 and again proceeded, via Norfolk, to Guantanamo Bay, where she spent the following two months as escort for the aircraft carrier USS VALLEY FORGE, during that ship ' s shake- down cruise. . . The ROYAL departed Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 18 March 1947, and ar- rived in New York 22 March, remaining there until 21 April 1947. Upon leaving New York 21 April 1947 the ROYAL participated in shore bombardment exercises near Norfolk, Virginia, and in the Caribbean Area until her arrival on 15 June at Pensacola, Florida, where she operated for almost all of the next three years as escort and plane guard ship for aircraft carriers. Dur- ing these three years she departed Pensacola for several short periods. She underwent her first shipyard overhaul at Boston, Massachusetts, from 16 June 1948 to 2 September 1948 and then had ten days refresher trainingat Guantanamo Bay. She visited various Caribbean and Gulf Coast ports including Havana, -6-
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Cuba; Mobile, Alabama (to participate in the annual Mardi Gras festivities); Corpus Christi, Texas; Key West, Florida; Galveston, Texas; Panama City, Florida, and Beaumont, Texas. On 23 March 1950 the FORREST ROYAL concluded her duty at Pensacola and proceeded to Portsmouth, Virginia, for a shipyard overhaul which ended on 16 August. HISTORY OF THE USS FORREST ROYAL (DD 872) OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST 28 OCTOBER 1950-6 JUNE 1951 After a short readiness for sea period the USS FORREST ROYAL (DD 872) departed Norfolk, Virginia, August 24, 1950 enroute Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where she underwent refresher training until September 26, 1950. She then proceeded via the Panama Canal; San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor, T. H.; and Midway Island, to the Far East to join the United Nations Forces in action against the Communists in Korea, arriving at Sasebo, Kyushu, Japan a month later. WfaW ]W CStr JNfc f -i. : ?Jfe - 7 -
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