Uss Rupertus DD 851 destroyermen world war 2 navy naval ship steel plaque
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| Management number | 16424871 | Release Date | 2025/10/05 | List Price | $81.05 | Model Number | 16424871 | ||
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Source Wiki: Rupertus DD-851 was laid down on 2 May 1945 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; launched on 21 September 1945; sponsored by Mrs. William H. Rupertus; and commissioned on 8 March 1946.
Service history
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1946–1949
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Following shakedown off Guantanamo Bay and visits to various east coast ports, Rupertus transited the Panama Canal and steamed to San Francisco. From 1946 she alternated deployments to the western Pacific with operations off the west coast of the United States.
On her first deployment in 1947 she operated throughout the Far East, but particularly at Tsingtao, China. In the eastern Pacific throughout 1948, she returned to Tsingtao in 1949 only to be one of the last three American ships to leave that port before it fell to the Communists.
. Remaining in the Far East, in June 1965 she participated in operations supporting the Gemini IV space flight; she then returned to Vietnamese waters for "Market Time" operations, boarding and inspecting many
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