USS Barry

The USS Barry (DD-933) was a destroyer of the United States Navy, named after the third ship to bear that name. Originally built as part of the Forrest Sherman class, the ship was extensively modernized in the 1960s and then served as the lead ship of the new Barry class. The destroyer had a long and eventful career, ranging from deployments in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean to supporting operations off the coast of Vietnam. The Barry became especially well known during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when she patrolled the quarantine line and monitored Soviet ships.

After she was decommissioned in 1982, the ship was towed to Washington, D.C., and stationed as a museum ship at the Washington Navy Yard on the Anacostia River. There, visitors could learn more about the history of the U.S. Navy and the technical development of destroyers. The ship was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Because of high renovation costs and declining visitor numbers, however, the USS Barry was officially retired in 2015 and, in 2016, moved to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to be scrapped.