USS Manley ( DD - 940 ) USS " Manley " ( DD - 940 ) , named for Captain John Manley ( c . 1733 – 1793 ) , was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine . The keel was laid down on 10 February 1955 . " Manley " was commissioned on 1 February 1957 and sponsored by Mrs . Arleigh A . Burke , wife of then Chief of Naval Operations , the principal speaker at the commissioning ceremonies , and with Commander William H . Rowen in command . History . " Manley " departed Newport , Rhode Island on 11 April for shakedown in the Caribbean . On 7 June , " Manley " got underway from San Juan , Puerto Rico for a goodwill tour that took her to Lisbon , Amsterdam , Kiel , and Copenhagen . The destroyer returned to the Boston Naval Shipyard on 12 July for repairs and alterations . " Manley " left Boston on 22 August 1957 and sortied with an attack carrier strike force destined for a large scale NATO Fleet Exercise " Strike Back . " She arrived in the Firth of Clyde , Scotland on 14 September for a liberty stop . Three days later , she was underway conducting simulated war tactics as it steamed off the coast of Norway north of the Arctic Circle . After exercises with the carrier force , " Manley " returned to Norfolk on 24 October 1957 . Later , assigned to DesDiv 41 , she became the flagship for DesRon 4 . On 4 December 1957 , " Manley " set sail for a tour with the Sixth Fleet accompanied by the " Gearing " , " McCard " , and " Vogelsang " . " Manley " practiced simulated antisubmarine warfare attacks with the squadron while en route but was diverted on 11 December through heavy seas toward the Azores where an aircraft had been reported down , " Manley " took her position in a futile search . In the early morning hours of 12 December , the destroyer was broadsided by a tremendous wave , killing two , injuring several others , and impacting heavy damage to the galley , radio and radar rooms when she suffered flooding . Enduring northwesterly gusts up to 80 knots , " Manley " battled through heavy rain squalls and mountainous seas toward Lisbon to arrive at night on 13 December for emergency treatment of the injured and repairs to the vessel . She moved to Gibraltar on the 18th and underwent voyage repairs in the Royal Dockyard of Gibraltar until 4 January 1958 , then headed via Bermuda for Norfolk arriving on the 15th . Eventually , she entered the Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia for more permanent repairs . Four months later on 29 April , " Manley " returned to Norfolk and resumed her role as the flagship of DesRon 4 . On 6 June 1958 , " Manley " set sail with the squadron for an Atlantic Fleet operation that included midshipmen training , implementation of the President ' s people - to - people programs , and visits to foreign ports of call . She visited among other ports , Kiel , Germany and Copenhagen , Denmark , and Antwerp , Belgium while escorting the aircraft carrier USS " Lake Champlain " ( CV - 39 ) . Returning to Norfolk on 2 October , she was soon underway with the USS Intrepid ( CVA - 11 ) to join the Second Fleet in maneuvers off the coast of San Juan , Puerto Rico . Following those operations , she took her position as plane guard for the USS Franklin D . Roosevelt ( CVA - 42 ) during operations up the eastern seaboard to the Virginia Capes . The first half of 1959 saw " Manley " with the Surface Antisubmarine Development Detachment at Guantanamo Bay . On 1 March , " Manley " ' s and DesRon ' s Four homeport was officially changed to Charleston , South Carolina . After six months of upkeep and maintenance , the squadron was underway for the Mediterranean and anti - submarine deployment . She participated alongside her British counterparts in " Long Haul , " and with the French in operation " Boomerang . " After an extensive overhaul in the Charleston shipyard , " Manley " was again underway on 21 July 1960 for firing exercises off Culebra Island in the Caribbean . On 27 July she took her position at station number five on the Atlantic Missile Range for the test firing of a Mercury space capsule . Then , she headed eastward to Cardiff , Wales and participated in experimental antisubmarine warfare patrols and attack team exercises en route to stateside . After completing a short stint of operations off the coast of Jacksonville , Florida , " Manley " turned for Pollensa Bay , Majorca . Joining the USS Forrestal ( CVA - 59 ) task force at Beirut , Lebanon , she joined in Sixth Fleet maneuvers . In November , she rendezvoused with the " Franklin D . Roosevelt " to take part in patrols south of Hispaniola . Early in 1962 , the destroyer spent a fortnight on Project Mercury operations followed up a week later underway in support of the " Independence " in night operations in the North Atlantic . Twice within three days her crew rescued downed pilots at night . One of those pilots , now retired Captain Bill Brandel of Fairfax , Virginia , appeared at the Capitol 2001 Reunion on Sunday , 28 October 2001 , nearly thirty years later , to extend his gratitude to several of those who participated in his rescue . On 28 September 1962 , " Manley " headed for Guantanamo Bay for refresher training and rescued a downed helicopter pilot . She spent most of October and November operating in the waters of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis . While returning home , the destroyer again came to the rescue of three men of yacht , Avian , adrift in the Atlantic . Late in January 1963 , she sailed to the Caribbean for operation " Springboard ' 63 . " After ASW exercises with the USS Essex ( CVS - 9 ) , joint Canadian - American ASW exercises took her to Halifax , Nova Scotia . In October , " Manley " again departed for a Mediterranean deployment . She was honored to be selected as SIXTH Fleet ' s flagship during a three - day visit to Tunis . In December , she saw operations with the Middle East Force . On 13 January 1964 , " Manley " dispatched her then Executive Officer , Lieutenant Commander Joseph E . Murray , Jr . to negotiate with armed rebels in Zanzibar . Along with a small band of sailors , Murray successfully walked away with 91 American citizens held hostages by the guerrillas . Following routine upkeep in Charleston , she resumed operations off the Atlantic coast in May and on 6 January 1965 returned to the Mediterranean , representing the United States during the tenth anniversary celebrations of CENTO in Iskenderum , Turkey . During her homeward voyage , " Manley " spotted the collision of " Kaskaskia " and the Liberian tanker SS " World Bond " near St . Helena . " Manley " rescued 23 " World Bond " passengers and crew from the murky waters . Her emergency teams fought on board fires and flooding and saved the ship . On 9 August , " Manley " took her recovery station for the space flight of Gemini V . For the next year , she operated in various combat scenarios off the Carolina coasts in preparation for then unknown operations in Southeast Asia . Departing Charleston on 5 October 1966 , she joined DesRon 20 at Gitmo , and soon afterwards set her bow for Vietnam . En route , she assisted the ill captain of the Greek merchant ship , " Marcetta " . On 21 November , " Manley " relieved USS Hull ( DD - 945 ) in Da Nang as a unit of TU 70 . 8 . 9 , a gunfire support group of the Seventh Fleet . " Manley " provided distinguished support of the ground forces until 7 December when a powder case ignited in the breech of mount 51 , her forward gun mount . The resulting fire and explosion tore the mount apart and endangered the magazines . Damage control snuffed out the blaze before extensive damage occurred . The casualties were evacuated by helicopter and the destroyer steamed to Da Nang to disembark the visiting Senator Henry M . Jackson . After Subic Bay repairs , " Manley " joined up with " Enterprise " ( CVAN - 65 ) and " Bainbridge " ( DLGN - 25 ) in the Gulf of Tonkin and operated there until assigned to TG 77 . 4 for ASW work with " Bennington " ( CVS - 20 ) . Awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for sustained meritorious service in operations against the enemy during her deployment in Southeast Asia , " Manley " returned to an open - armed reception in Charleston in May 1967 . After a brief stay in her homeport , " Manley " again departed for the Western Pacific and combat duty in September . Her second Vietnam engagement was to last eight and one - half months until she returned to Charleston in June 1968 . The destroyer was decommissioned on 31 January 1970 to undergo prolong antisubmarine warfare modernization at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard . Extensive improvements to sensors , weaponry , communications , and crew habitability were accomplished and on 19 April 1971 , she was recommissioned and joined CruDesFlot 4 in Norfolk . Following her shakedown deployment in Guantanamo in the spring of ' 72 , " Manley " joined DesRon 12 and took part in the program to forward deploy ships in overseas homeports . DesRon 12 and " Manley " entered their new homeport , Athens , Greece , on 1 September 1971 . During the next thirty months , she was called upon frequently to participate in speed contingency exercises : the October 1973 Arab - Israeli and Cyprus crisis of 1974 . " Manley " became the first United States warship to visit Izmir , Turkey in December 1973 . On 22 July 1975 , the destroyer headed for a scheduled upkeep and maintenance in Philadelphia and in December 1976 , was home ported to Mayport , Florida . After finishing refresher training in March 1977 , she commenced operations as a unit of the Second Fleet followed by a Sixth Fleet deployment from November 1977 until July 1978 . Her operating cycle was continued with another Med and Northern Europe run . On 1 October 1979 , the crew became designated " Blue Noses " when they crossed the Arctic Circle . With an increasing naval presence in the Caribbean Sea , the destroyer operated throughout the area visiting Curaçao , Antilles , Limón , Costa Rica , and Santo Tomas de Castilla . In 1980 , she departed Mayport for overhaul in Boston . Following a successful refit and sea trials , " Manley " was assigned to Newport , Rhode Island and conducted workup ops in the Narragansett area preparing for REFTRA in Gitmo . Fate . From 3 April to 3 May , she conducted FEDEX operations in and around Puerto Rico . On 8 June 1982 , the USS " Manley " departed for what was to be her last cruise . She visited all of the Med ports , assisted in evacuation of civilians from Beirut , Lebanon during terrorist activities , and transited the Indian Ocean arriving after fifty days at sea in Karachi , Pakistan . From 16 October until 24 November , she joined in MidEastFor exercises . At long last , the Lady headed home arriving on 22 December in Newport to commence decommissioning . On 4 March 1983 , the USS " Manley " ( DD - 940 ) was struck for the Navy ' s active rolls . When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt in the early nineties she was resold to N . R . Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington in North Carolina .