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USS Barry (DD-933) was one of eighteen Forrest Sherman-class destroyers of the United States Navy, and was the third US destroyer to be named for Commodore John Barry. Commissioned in 1954, she spent most of her career in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean, but also served in the Vietnam War, for which she earned two battle stars. Another notable aspect of her service was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum ship at the Washington Navy Yard.
Because of the planned construction of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, that would land-lock the DS Barry at the Washington Navy Yard she will moved before October 2015 for dismantling.
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In 1984, the destroyer was brought to the Washington Navy Yard. She lies moored in the Anacostia River and serves as a distinctive attraction for visitors to the historic area, her former ASROC magazine converted to a display area and with some of her internal areas opened for visitors to tour. Some of the areas open for viewing include the machine repair shop, the crew berthing room, the ward room, the mess deck, the bridge and the combat information center (CIC).
She appeared briefly in the CBS drama NCIS, in the background during a scene in the episode "Newborn King", which aired 13 December 2011 also in "Dead Reflections" first aired 12 April 2011. On 5/17/2011 she also appeared in a quick scene on "Pyramid"
On 7 May 2016, DS Barry had her masts cut down and with a mixed caretaker crew of U.S. Navy and towing company personnel aboard, was towed from the Washington Navy Yard by the commercial tugs Emily Ann, Meagan Ann, and Thomas D. Witte. As the ship was towed down the Anacostia River to the Potomac River, a Washington, D.C., fireboat saluted her with a water cannon display, and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling played the U.S. Navy anthem "Anchors Aweigh" over loudspeakers ashore. Barry was scheduled to make a 50-hour journey via the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and Delaware River to the inactive ship facility at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, from which she had been towed to Washington in 1983. There she was to be mothballed and sold for scrapping |
