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USS ''Richard E. Byrd'' (DDG-23), a ''Charles F. Adams''-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, was named after noted polar explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The keel for the ''Richard E. Byrd'' was laid down 12 April 1961 by Todd Shipbuilding Corp. Seattle, Washington. She was launched 6 February 1962; sponsored by Mrs. Richard E. Byrd, whose daughter, Mrs. Robert G. Breyer, acted as proxy sponsor for the admiral's wife; and commissioned on 7 March 1964, Comdr. Walter G. Lessman in command. She was decommissioned on 27 April 1990 and in 1992 was sold to Greece and used for spare parts. She was sunk as target 19 June 2003. ==Service== Following a 45-day fitting out period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash., ''Richard E. Byrd'' steamed for her homeport of Norfolk, Va., via the Panama Canal, arriving 14 June 1964. ''Richard E. Byrd'' deployed to the Mediterranean 6 January 1965 as a unit of Destroyer Division 182. Late January 1967 Richard E. Byrd moved south to the Jacksonville operations area, and, while serving as rescue destroyer for , she rescued Lt. (jg) John F. Dickinson, whose A4-E aircraft crashed during a landing approach. May ''Richard E. Byrd'' was at sea in the screen of , which force rendezvoused with the damaged 9 June. On 6 October 1969 ship and crew participated together with Senator Harry F. Byrd and Virginia Gov. Mills E. Godwin, in the dedication of Richard Evelyn Byrd Hall at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at Gloucester Point, Va. January 26, 1975, an advance party landing party of two ship officers were mobbed by an angry demonstration of 4,000 Greeks on the island of Corfu. After being stoned, attempts were made to set their car on fire and "lynch" the occupants. One Greek was killed in the incident, but police and fire trucks successfully escorted the two back to their ship off shore. Over the next hours the protest demonstration regarding the Cypriot War swelled to 10,000, and DDG-23 decided to cancel the port visit.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19750127&id=F9hdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L18NAAAAIBAJ&pg=905,4176683〕〔http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19750129-1.2.19.10.aspx〕〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2512&dat=19750128&id=PBRIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lQANAAAAIBAJ&pg=3174,3366779〕 Early 1985, the start of a 6 month North Atlantic cruise involved a port visit to Lisbon, Portugal. At the end of the visit on January 28 about 3 a.m. local GMT, five other Nato ships and the USS Richard E. Byrd at Alcantara dock came under mortar fire from the terrorist group Forças Populares 25 de Abril without damage.〔http://fantasian.tripod.com/pf25.html〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/29/world/around-the-world-rebels-in-portugal-fire-grenades-at-nato-ships.html〕〔http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Extremist-Group-Claims-Responsibility-for-Shelling-of-Ships〕〔http://www.fold3.com/document/302503292/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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