USS Goodrich ( DD - 831 ) USS " Goodrich " ( DD / DDR - 831 ) was a of the United States Navy , named for Rear Admiral Caspar F . Goodrich ( 1847 – 1925 ) , and his son , Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich ( Died 1907 ) . " Goodrich " was launched on 25 February 1945 by the Bath Iron Works Co . , Bath , Maine ; sponsored by Mrs . Caspar F . Goodrich , widow of Admiral Goodrich and mother of Lt . Goodrich ; and commissioned on 24 April 1945 , Commander Dale R . Frankes in command . Service history . After shakedown training in the Caribbean , " Goodrich " transited the Panama Canal on 12 November 1945 to support the occupation of Japan . She patrolled between principal Japan ese ports until October 1946 ; then she based at Tsingtao , China , for patrol along the coast of Korea . The destroyer returned to San Francisco , California , on 21 December 1946 and departed on 7 January 1947 to base at Newport , Rhode Island , as a unit of the United States Atlantic Fleet . " Goodrich " overhauled in the New York Naval Shipyard , then served in the Mediterranean Sea ( 2 February - 22 May 1948 ) . This was her first of many annual tours with the " steel gray stabilizers " of the 6th Fleet , of actively countering the repeated threats of the Soviet s to overrun the defenseless nations of the Balkans and the Middle East . " Goodrich " was reclassified a radar picket destroyer , DDR - 831 , on 18 March 1949 . Her service included patrol along the Israeli - Egypt ian border of the Red Sea in February 1956 to help stem the Mid - East crisis that finally culminated in the nationalization of the Suez Canal . When fighting erupted , she sped back to the Mediterranean in November 1956 to protect Americans in that area and serve notice that the United States was determined to contain and terminate the conflict . The destroyer supported the landing of Marines at Beirut , Lebanon , on 14 July 1958 , as the Navy again met and checked a Communist thrust against the Western democracies . " Goodrich " shifted her home port in June 1959 from Newport to Mayport , Florida . Thereafter her annual deployments to the Mediterranean included intensive training in all forms of naval welfare with NATO units and a constant readiness with the 6th Fleet to meet any threat to peace in the Mediterranean region . She interrupted her schedule in January 1960 , entering the Norfolk Navy Yard for an eight - month modernization overhaul which included complete renovation and latest weapons and shipboard equipment . She was on Project Mercury recovery station on 12 February 1962 as Lieutenant Colonel John H . Glenn , USMC , made his successful orbital space flight . " Goodrich " went on alert again with the 6th Fleet during 24 October to 20 November 1962 when the Navy responded to President John F . Kennedy ' s call for a quarantine of Cuba that choked off the flow of military supplies and enforced the American demands for the withdrawal of the Soviet missile experts and equipment . On 22 July 1966 the destroyer got underway from Mayport on her 13th 6th Fleet deployment . She cruised throughout the Mediterranean for five months , unobtrusively patrolling with the 6th Fleet and taking part in combined naval warfare exercises with units of the Turkish , Greek , British , and Italian Navies . She returned to Mayport on 20 December 1966 for upkeep and type training . " Goodrich " was reclassified DD - 831 on 1 January 1969 , and was decommissioned on 30 November 1969 . " Goodrich " was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 February 1974 . She was sold on 12 September 1977 , and broken up for scrap .