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U.S.S. EATON
(DD-510)FIGHING FIVE AND DIME
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DD-510 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DD-510 Shellback Initiation | Add a DD-510 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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MAR | 1942 | - | Keel Date: 17 MAR 1942 at Bath Iron Works Bath ME | ||
SEP | 1942 | - | Launch Date: 20 SEP 1942 | ||
DEC | 1942 | - | Commissioned: 4 DEC 1942 | ||
DEC | 1942 | - | DEC | 1945 | World War II South Pacific War Zone |
JAN | 1946 | - | JAN | 1946 | De Commissioned;Reserve Atlantic Fleet Charleston SC |
DEC | 1951 | - | DEC | 1951 | Re Commissioning as DDE510 at Boston Massachusetts |
JAN | 1954 | - | JAN | 1954 | Northern Europe/Mediterranean Cruise |
JUN | 1957 | - | SEP | 1957 | Middle East Cruise |
JAN | 1961 | - | JAN | 1961 | cuban bay of pigs |
OCT | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
MAY | 1963 | - | MAY | 1964 | Caribbean |
NOV | 1963 | - | MAY | 1964 | Mediterranean |
MAY | 1965 | - | MAR | 1967 | Guantanamo Bay |
APR | 1967 | - | NOV | 1967 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
APR | 1967 | - | MAR | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1967 | - | AUG | 1967 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1968 | - | MAR | 1968 | Towing of us spy ship out of Havana harbor |
DD-510 General Specifications
Class: Fletcher-class destroyer
Named for: William Eaton
Complement: 336 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 2050 tons
Length: 376 feet 6 inches
Beam: 39 feet 8 inches
Flank Speed: 35 knots
Range: 6500 Nautical Miles
Final Disposition:Sunk as target off Florida 27 March 1970