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USS Jonas Ingram

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NATO exchange program. She returned from the Mediterranean in time to serve as one of the recovery ships for the unmanned Gemini space shot GT-2 in December. Atlantic Fleet ASW exercises in the North Atlantic during February 1965 were followed by Operation "Springboard" in the Caribbean in March. In the summer Jonas Ingram got underway on a people-to-people cruise in Middle Eastern waters and visited such parts as
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Conference in May 1960 and a role in another Project Mercury space test late in the year. The hardy destroyer departed 15 March 1961 for the African coast to support United Nations peace-keeping efforts in the Congo. Richard York, who was known for his contributions to the vessel, was commissioned on
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alternated Mediterranean deployments with operations out of Mayport. On 21 September 1964 she was one of our representatives at Malta during ceremonies at which Great Britain granted independence to the island. During this cruise she embarked four Turkish naval officers for a 4-week visit under the
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returned home 20 October where she prepared for Exercise "Lantflex 66-2." The fleet exercise took the destroyer to the Caribbean late in November and lasted through mid-December. Jonas Ingram operated out of Mayport until sailing for the Mediterranean 17 July 1967. She reach Gibraltar 29 July and
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The destroyer, as flagship for Rear Admiral E. C. Stephen, Commander South Atlantic Forces, sailed for the South Atlantic 24 August and conducted joint exercises with the French and South African navies visiting nine African countries from Tanganyika before returning May-port 15 November.
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spacecraft in December. After operations in the Atlantic and Caribbean early in 1966 Jonas Ingram returned to the Mediterranean for service with the 6th Fleet. In September 1966 she accompanied Stribling (DD-867) to Port Said, the first U.S. warships to visit
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rescued the 58 surviving passengers and crew, and nine bodies were recovered, with 31 missing. The survivors and bodies were put to shore at Djibouti. The crew of the
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The Jonas Ingram was decommissioned and modernized during an overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. One of the three five inch gunmounts was removed and an
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on 15 June 1955, launched on 7 August 1956 by Mrs. Lawrence Hays, Jr., daughter of Admiral Ingram and commissioned on 19 July 1957 at Boston Naval Shipyard. USS
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Returning home 8 September, she sailed 18 October for NATO exercises in Northern European waters and returned 21 December. For the next two years
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rescued seven survivors of a Finnish motor craft that sank in the Baltic Sea. The survivors were put ashore at
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Highlights of the next 16 months of operations out of Mayport were duty providing air-sea rescue cover for
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departed Boston 26 February 1958 for patrols in the West Indies. She sailed from
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The destroyer returned to Mayport in the fall to become a recovery ship for
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Following shakedown in the Caribbean and along the western coast of
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received an SOS from the Indian vessel merchantman and freighter
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She returned to Newport 12 March 1959 and sailed 16 June for
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships – Jonas Ingram
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nose-cone which splashed off the Florida coast 25 June.
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on 15 June 1983 and sunk as a target on 23 July 1988.
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was decommissioned on 4 March 1983, stricken from the
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the ship September 1973, and decommissioned in 1975.
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Jonas H. Ingram
Bethlehem Steel
Fore River Shipyard
Forrest Sherman-class
destroyer
knots
5"/54 (127 mm/54)
3" (76 mm)
torpedo tubes
hedgehog
depth charge
Jonas H. Ingram
Medal of Honor
Lieutenant
Vera Cruz
Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Bethlehem Steel
Quincy
Massachusetts
Naval Vessel Register
South America
Newport, Rhode Island
Mayport, Florida
Project Mercury
President Eisenhower
Paris Summit
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Berbera

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