By Yeoman on Monday, 26 July 2021
Category: Destroyers

USS Joseph P. Kennedry Jr. - DD-850 launched

79 years ago today, on 26 July 1945 Gearing-class destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) was launched at Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts. She was sponsored by Miss Jean Kennedy Smith, sister of Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr DD 850 at Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA

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