USS Steinaker ( DD - 863 ) The second USS " Steinaker " ( DD - 863 / DDR - 863 / DD - 863 ) was a of the United States Navy , named for Private First Class Donald Baur Steinaker , USMCR ( 1922 – 1942 ) who was killed in action on Guadalcanal and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross . " Steinaker " was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 1 September 1944 , launched on 13 February 1945 by Miss Carol Steinaker and commissioned on 26 May 1945 . " Steinaker " held her shakedown cruise off Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , and returned to Norfolk , Virginia , her home port , where she acted as a training ship for the remainder of the year . Until 1952 , the destroyer alternated her operations between the east coast with the Atlantic Fleet and deployment with the 6th Fleet . She was deployed to the Mediterranean in 1947 , 1949 , 1950 , 1951 , and the first five months of 1952 . " Steinaker " entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 1 July 1952 for conversion to a radar picket destroyer and was classified as DDR - 863 . The work was completed on 28 February 1953 and shakedown at Guantanamo Bay followed . She made her first deployment to the 6th Fleet as a picket destroyer from 16 September to 3 February 1954 . She also served with the 6th Fleet for portions of 1955 , 1958 , 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , and 1965 . In 1964 , the destroyer was converted under the FRAM program and given modern antisubmarine weapons and detection equipment . On 1 July of that year , she resumed the designation , DD - 863 . " Steinaker " was in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean for two months in 1967 as a unit of the Middle East Force . On 26 March 1968 , she stood out of Norfolk headed for her first tour in the western Pacific . She transited the Panama Canal on 31 March and — after calling briefly at San Diego , Pearl Harbor , Midway , Guam , and the Philippine Islands — arrived off Vietnam . " Steinaker " was assigned to the 7th Fleet from 20 May through 1 October and participated in naval gunfire support operations off Bình Thuận and Phú Yên provinces ; " Sea Dragon " operations off the coast of North Vietnam to interdict seaborne infiltration of Communist forces into South Vietnam ; and antiaircraft picket duty off the demilitarized zone . She also operated with aircraft carriers conducting strikes against North Vietnam . " Steinaker " returned to the east coast of the United States , via Subic Bay , Singapore , Yokosuka , and Okinawa . She arrived at Norfolk on 5 November 1968 and resumed Atlantic Fleet operations until 9 January 1970 . At that time , she was assigned to NATO ' s Standing Naval Force , Atlantic . This tour lasted until 23 July 1970 . She made another voyage to the Mediterranean from 23 February to 23 July 1971 and returned to the North Atlantic from 10 July to 18 November 1972 . " Steinaker " was transferred to Destroyer Squadron 10 , Naval Reserve Force , on 1 July 1973 and changed her home port to Baltimore . Into December 1974 , she serves as a training ship for reserves . " Steinaker " received two battle star s for service in Vietnam . " Steinaker " was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 24 February 1982 , transferred to Mexico and renamed " Netzahualcoyotl " .