USS Bigelow

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USS Bigelow (DD-942) was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in the United States Navy. The ship was named for Watertender Second Class Elmer Charles Bigelow (1920–1945), who was killed in action extinguishing a magazine fire while serving on board Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". during action against enemy Japanese forces off Corregidor in the Philippines on 14 February 1945. Bigelow was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.[1]

Bigelow was built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine. The ship was launched by Mrs. Verna B. Perry, mother of Elmer C. Bigelow.[1]

Bigelow was part of Combined Task Group CTG 136.1.1 tasked with blockading Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.[2] Bigelow received the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for participating from 24 October 1962 to 21 November 1962.[3]

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Bigelow served as a test platform for Phalanx CIWS in 1977. The mount was installed just aft of the aft radar gun director.[4][5][6]

Glenn R. Brindel, commanding officer of Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". during the 1987 missile attack, was executive officer of Bigelow from 1978 to 1980.[7]

Fate

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Left to Right: Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Bigelow, and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". pier-side in Mina Salman, Bahrain in the summer of 1981. Coronado, the flagship of the U.S. Middle East Forces at the time, was painted white as is tradition for flagships since the Great White Fleet.

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Bigelow decommissioned 5 November 1982.

She was 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. She was re-acquired by the Navy for disposition as a target ship, stricken 1 June 1990 and was "Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise" (presumably sunk as a gunnery target) on or before 2 April 2003.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
  2. ↑ Naval Historical Center. The Naval Quarantine of Cuba, 1962: Quarantine, 22 -26 October Template:Webarchive.
  3. ↑ Naval Historical Center. U.S. Navy Ships and Units Which Received the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for Participating in the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
  4. ↑ Navweaps.com 20 mm Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS).
  5. ↑ All Hands Magazine January 2001 Template:Webarchive.
  6. ↑ NavSource contains an image of the CIWS mount.
  7. ↑ Skipper is veteran of Vietnam; The Patriot - News. Harrisburg, Pa.: 19 May 1987. pg. A.2
  8. ↑ N.V.R. indicates that the ship was disposed of on 2 April 2003. That date may be merely the date on which the N.V.R. updated its records; it is not indicated that the ship was sunk on that date.

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