USS Blandy (DD-943)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 29 December 1955 |
| Launched: | 19 December 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 26 November 1957 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 November 1983 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy in Massachusetts on 11 December 1992 |
| Struck: | 27 July 1990 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,800 tons standard.
4,050 tons full load. |
| Length: | 407 feet waterline, 418 feet overall. |
| Beam: | 45 feet. |
| Draught: | 22 feet. |
| Propulsion: | 4 x 1,200 psi Foster-Wheeler boilers, General Electric steam turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots. |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots. |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 218 enlisted. |
| Armament: | 3 x 5-inch 54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 x 3-inch 50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 x mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 x 12.75-inch Mark 32 torpedo tubes. |
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USS Blandy (DD-943), named for Admiral William H. P. Blandy USN (1890-1954), was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy in Massachusetts and launched Mrs. John M. Lee, daughter of Admiral Blandy.
When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington in North Carolina.