USS Forrest Sherman ( DD - 931 ) USS " Forrest Sherman " ( DD - 931 ) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer of the United States Navy . She was named for Admiral Forrest P . Sherman USN ( 1896 – 1951 ) . " Forrest Sherman " was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath , Maine on 27 October 1953 , launched on 5 February 1955 by Mrs . Forrest P . Sherman , widow of Admiral Sherman and commissioned on 9 November 1955 , Commander R . S . Crenshaw in command . After a year of initial training and fitting out , " Forrest Sherman " arrived at her home port , Newport , R . I . , 15 January 1957 . Two days later she sailed for Washington , D . C . , where she was open for public visiting during the week of the second inauguration of President Dwight D . Eisenhower . From Newport , " Forrest Sherman " sailed on training and fleet exercises along the east coast and in the Caribbean , until the summer of 1957 , when she took part in the midshipman cruise to South America and the International Naval Review in Hampton Roads on 12 June . On 3 September 1957 , " Forrest Sherman " sailed for NATO Operation Strikeback , screening a carrier striking group in exercises off Norway . She called at Plymouth , England , and Copenhagen , Denmark , before returning to Narragansett Bay on 22 October . In preparation for her first deployment to the Mediterranean , the destroyer took part in amphibious exercises off Puerto Rico in July 1958 , and arrived at Gibraltar on 10 August . She patrolled the eastern Mediterranean through the rest of the month , then sailed to join the 7th Fleet in its operations off Taiwan in support of the threatened islands of Quemoy and Matsu . Sailing eastward to complete a cruise around the world , " Forrest Sherman " returned to Newport on 11 November . During the summer of 1959 , " Forrest Sherman " joined in Operation Inland Seas , the cruise of a task force into the Great Lakes in celebration of the opening of the St . Lawrence Seaway . She served as escort to the Royal Yacht HMY " Britannia " with President Dwight D . Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II embarked for the naval review on Lake St . Louis on 26 June , then sailed on to entertain over 110 , 000 visitors at Great Lakes ports . Returning to Newport , " Forrest Sherman " took part in coastal exercises with the Atlantic Fleet , then underwent minor repairs and alterations in the Boston Naval Shipyard . More training exercises began in 1960 for the destroyer , and on 21 March she sailed on a 7 - month cruise to the Mediterranean and duty with the 6th Fleet . En route home in October , " Forrest Sherman " came to the aid of the Liberian freighter " Allen Christensen " who had a severely injured man on board . Taking off the patient in a motor whaleboat at night , " Forrest Sherman " sped him to Bermuda , site of the nearest hospital . The destroyer arrived at Newport on 15 October and some four weeks later entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for major overhaul , lasting into 1961 . Fate . " Forrest Sherman " was decommissioned on 5 November 1982 , stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 July 1990 and sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy , Massachusetts on 11 December 1992 . When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N . R . Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court . Ship was ' recovered ' by the Navy and berthed in the Inactive Ship Facility at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard . She was eventually put on a list for donation for museum status . In 2006 , Congress passed Pub . L . 109 - 163 , the National Denfense Authorization Act 2006 , which authorized the transfer of " Forrest Sherman " to the USS Forrest Sherman DD - 931 Foundation Inc , a group that planned on moving the ship to Indian River Inlet , Delaware to restore it as a museum . These plans fell through and the ship was removed from donation hold in 2011 . Volunteers from other museum ships were allowed to remove useful parts / equipment in June , 2011 . Set for scrapping .