USS Blandy Deployments and Major Events
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
DEC 1955 - Keel Date: 29 DEC 1955
at Bethlehem Steel Fore River Shipyard
DEC 1956 - Launch Date: 19 DEC 1956
NOV 1957 - Commissioned: 26 NOV 1957
MAY 1958 - Shellback Initiation - 18 MAY 1958 - Atlantic Ocean
MAY 1958 - Shellback Initiation - 18 MAY 1958 - Atlantic Ocean
MAY 1958 - Shellback Initiation - 18 MAY 1958 - Atlantic Ocean
MAY 1959 - MAY 1959 Unknown Soldiers of WWII and Korea brought to Washington DC
JUN 1959 - JUN 1959 Caribbean
JUN 1960 - OCT 1960 Mediterranean
OCT 1962 - OCT 1962 Cuban Missle Blockade
OCT 1962 - NOV 1962 Cuban Missle Blockade
NOV 1962 - Shellback Initiation - 11 NOV 1962 - Atlantic Ocean
MAR 1968 - NOV 1968 West Pac-Viet Nam
MAR 1968 - NOV 1968 West Pac-Viet Nam
MAR 1968 - NOV 1968 West Pac-Viet Nam
OCT 1968 - Shellback Initiation - 5 OCT 1968 - Pacific Ocean
MAY 1970 - MAY 1970 Recommisioning
NOV 1970 - DEC 1970 Guantanamo Bay
JUL 1971 - DEC 1971 Mediterranean
AUG 1972 - Shellback Initiation - 22 AUG 1972 - Indian Ocean
OCT 1972 - MAR 1973 Viet-Nam Service
OCT 1972 - MAR 1973 West Pac-Viet Nam
NOV 1972 - DEC 1972 West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN 1973 - JAN 1973 docked at pier in da nang vietnam
JUN 1974 - NOV 1974 Mediterranean
DEC 1975 - OCT 1976 Major Overhaul - Boston, MA
DEC 1978 - APR 1979 Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
JAN 1979 - JAN 1981 Dry Dock
JAN 1979 - JAN 1981 Dry Dock
NOV 1981 - MAY 1982 Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
JUL 1982 - JUL 1982 North Atlantic
JUL 1982 - JUL 1982 North Atlantic
NOV 1982 - Decommissioned: 5 NOV 1982