During the Vietnam War, USS Shangri-la continued her Second Fleet and Sixth Fleet assignments. She earned three battle stars for her service in the war. In 1965, Shangri-la suffered her greatest tragedy in 1965, when the destroyer Newman K. Perry accidently rammed her during war exercises, resulting in one death.
The Story of the USS Murphy s Long Service in Wartime
The destroyer USS Murphy survived a collision on the open sea and served during four amphibious operations in the European Theater.
Eighty miles off the coast of New Jersey and 280 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean lies the forward section of a World War II destroyer, where it came to rest more than 60 years ago. According to the USS
Murphy History Project, the warship’s tragic and triumphant story reads “like a chronicle of the Second World War.”
On the eve of World War II, with its emphasis on antisubmarine operations against German U-boats in the North Atlantic, the U.S. Navy’s destroyer force consisted mainly of