USS Stribling (DD-867)
USS ''Stribling'' was a in the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship named for Admiral Cornelius Kincheloe Stribling. ''Stribling'' was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 15 January 1945, launched on 8 June 1945 by Mrs. W. Hunter Powell and commissioned on 29 September 1945. Service history 1945–1950 ''Stribling'' shook down out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; then reported for duty at the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, Florida. In 1948, she embarked upon the first of a career-long series of deployments to the Mediterranean Sea. Between 1948 and 1953, ''Stribling'' spent a portion of each year in the "middle sea." During the 1948 cruise, she flew the United Nations flag while on Palestine Patrol. In 1949, she became the first American ship to visit a Spanish port since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. While deployed with the 6th Fleet again in 1950, she visited a number of northern European ports. 195 ...
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USS Stribling (DD-867) In 1945
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Stribling'' for Cornelius Stribling. * The first was a , later redesignated DM-1. * The second was a from 1945 to 1976. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stribling United States Navy ship names ...
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