Stoddard (DD 566) - Naval Cruise Book

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A 2100 ton destroyer is a jack of all trades. From anti-submarine warfare to escort duty, from search and rescue to gunfire support, many are the tin can's functions. They're not big enough for a headline, but not too small to exclude from the back page. In World War Two they threw them together, mass produced them, to fight hard and to die fast. Reason wouldn't allow them to last long, but many did. STODDARD is one that made it through Now after all these years the bones creak and the muscles strain but she still answers her call Everybody knows she won t last much longer but they knew that in 1944 Newer faster ships are beginning to break the waves The modern Navy sits in all its splendor for the taxpayer to look at Maybe somebody should tap him on the shoulder and bring him over to Five Six Six Look slr that ship has served you well for many years but look quickly she s the Navy s lnca the last ofa dying breed