USS Edson

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrwvElmDp4&t=10s    The USS Edson is a Forest Sherman class destroyer for the US Navy. This ship is 418ft long from stern to bow and weighed about 2,800 tons and 4,050 tons with a full load. She was built by Bath Iron Works in Maine in 1958 and named after Major General Merrit “Red Mike” Edson USMC. Her home port was long Beach California and she patrolled the straits between Taiwan and communist China. It was featured on television on the Twilight Zone episode “The Thirty Fathom Grave” in 1963. During her lifetime she took damage three separate times, the first was on her fifth deployment in 1967 when she was hit from a North Vietnamese shore battery while providing naval gunfire. The second was on June 17th 1968 when she and other US ships reportedly took friendly-fire form the US Air Force. The third and final was Dec 12th 1974, Edson suffered from a noir fire in the fire room which started from an oil leak ignition, all was secured in the room and no one was harmed. Dec 15th, 1988 she was decommissioned at the time she was the last all-gun destroyer in the US Navy. It then began it’s rounds as a museum ending up in Bay City, MI on August 7th, 2012 as it’s final location. ​