53 years ago today, on 2 July 1973, Gearing-class destroyer USS Jospeh P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) was decommissioned by her last CO CDR Brian Patrick McCrane, and struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr DD 850 at Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA
80 years ago today, on 2 July 1946, LST-325 was decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Florida, and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
USS LST 325 Ship Memorial, Evensville, IN
86 years ago today, on 2 July 1943, River-class frigate HMS Fal was commissioned.
She was transferred to Burma on 25 May 1947 as UBS Mayu, and has been preserved as a museum ship at Myanmar Naval Training Headquarters
72 years ago today, on 1 July 1953, Australian Daring-class destroyer HMAS Vampire (D11) was laid down at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, Australia
MuseumShip at the Austalian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW Australia
77 years ago today, on 1 July 1948, Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was decommissioned by her CO, CAPT. John Martin Higgins.
USS Wisconsin at Nauticus, Norfolk, VA
Here we see six sixteen inch guns of the Wisconsin fire a broadside at a target 15 miles away. This dramatic picture was made during the two weeks training cruise of the Wisconsin to the Canal Zone with 600 Naval Reservists aboard. Released 18 February 1947.
Source: http://www.navsource.net/archives/01/64a.htm
114 years ago today, on 1 July 1911, the Great Lakes freighter Col. James M. Schoonmaker was launched at Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan.
MuseumShip at the National Museum of the Great Lakes, Toledo, OH
On July 1 1971, Tench-class submarine USS Thornback (SS-418) was decommissioned for the last time, and transferred to Turkey as TCG Uluçalireis (S 338).
41 years ago today, on 1 July 1984, Swedish Halland-class destroyer HSwMS Småland was decommissioned.
MuseumShip at Maritiman, Gothenburg, Sweden.
78 years ago today, on 30 June 1948, Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) was decommissioned for the first time by her CO Captain Joseph W. Leverton, Jr.
Battleship New Jersey, Camden, NJ
37 years ago today, on 30 June 1989, Forrest Sherman-class destroyer USS Edson (DD-946) became part of the Intrepid museum, New York, NY.
She left New York in June 2004 and is now the MuseumShip USS Edson in Bay City, MI.
