USS Turner Joy

History
United States
Namesake	Charles Turner Joy
Ordered	27 January 1956
Builder	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company
Laid down	30 September 1957
Launched	5 May 1958
Acquired	27 July 1959
Commissioned	3 August 1959
Decommissioned	22 November 1982
Stricken	13 February 1990
Motto	Esse Quam Videri ("To be rather than to seem")
Status	Donated as a museum and memorial to the Bremerton Historic Ships Association and berthed at Bremerton, Washington on 10 April 1991.
General characteristics
Class and type	Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Displacement	2,800 tons standard, 4,050 tons full load
Length	407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draft	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion	4 × 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Babcock & Wilcox boilers, Westinghouse steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 × shafts
Speed	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi. at 20 knots   (8,300 km at 37 km/h)
Complement	15 officers, 218 men
Armament	3 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 caliber dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 × mark 10/11 hedgehogs; 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes

USS Turner Joy (DD-951) is one of 18 Forrest Sherman-class destroyers of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956). Commissioned in 1959, she spent her entire career in the Pacific. She participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum ship in Bremerton, Washington.