USS Mullinnix (DD-944)

USS "Mullinnix" (DD-944) was a "Forrest Sherman"-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix USN (1892–1943), who was killed in action during World War II, when USS "Liscome Bay" (CVE-56) was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine "I-175" and sank southwest of Butaritari Island on 24 November 1943.

"Mullinnix" was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched by Mrs. Kathryn F. Mullinnix.

"Mullinnix" conducted patrol duty in the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, participated in the Gemini program recovery operations in March 1966, and served as plane guard for aircraft carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam.

Featured in Twilight Zone episode, The Thirty-Fathom Grave.

ee also

*List of United States Navy destroyers

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m15/mullinnix.htm
*NVR|http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DD944.htm

External links

* [http://www.ussmullinnix.org/ Website dedicated to the ship]
* [http://navysite.de/dd/dd944.htm Basic technical parameters] and [http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/944.htm photo gallery]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnpcdG8Tww Videoclip of the sinking]