USS Mullinnix

USS Mullinnix (DD-944), named for Admiral Henry Maston Mullinnix USN (1892-1943) killed in action when USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) was torpedoed by the enemy Japanese submarine I-175 and sank south-west of Butaritari Island on 24 November 1943, was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy in Massachusetts on 5 April 1956, launched on 18 March 1957 by Mrs. Kathryn F. Mullinnix and commissioned on 7 March 1958. Mullinnix conducted patrol duty in the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, participated in the Project Gemini recovery operations in March 1966, and served as plane guard for 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 conflict in Vietnam. USS Mullinnix was decommissioned on 11 August 1983, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 26 July 1990 and sunk as a target on 22 August 1992.