USS Mullinnix (DD-944) underway in the Mediterranean Sea 1970
USS Mullinnix in 1970
History
United States
NameMullinnix
NamesakeHenry M. Mullinnix
Ordered23 October 1954
BuilderBethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard
Laid down5 April 1956
Launched18 March 1957
Acquired26 February 1958
Commissioned7 March 1958
Decommissioned11 August 1983
Stricken26 July 1990
Fate
  • Sunk as a target,
  • 22 August 1992
General characteristics
Class and typeForrest Sherman-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 2,800 tons standard,
  • 4,050 tons full load
Length
  • 407 ft (124 m) waterline,
  • 418 ft (127 m) overall.
Beam45 ft (14 m)
Draft22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion
Speed32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range
Complement15 officers, 218 enlisted.
Armament

USS Mullinnix (DD-944) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix USN (1892–1943), who was killed in action during World War II, when the aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-175 and sank southwest of Butaritari Island on 24 November 1943.

Mullinnix was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched by Mrs. Kathryn F. Mullinnix.

Mullinnix conducted patrol duty in the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, participated in the Gemini program recovery operations in March 1966, and served as plane guard for aircraft carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties, and carried out naval gunfire support missions during the Vietnam War.

Mullinix and her sister ship Edson appeared in The Twilight Zone episode "The Thirty-Fathom Grave."

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