USS Barney DDG 6 / Commodore Josuah Barney
/ Charles F. Adams class Guided Missile Destroyer – US Navy
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Guided Missile Destroyer
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DDG 6 -
USS Barney
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USS Barney (DDG 6)
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US Navy photo
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Type,
Class:
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Guided Missile Destroyer; Charles F. Adams - class;
planned as DD 956; built as
DDG 6; |
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Builder:
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New York Shipbuilding
Corp., Camden, New Jersey, USA |
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STATUS:
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Awarded: March 28, 1957 Laid down: August 10, 1959 Launched: December 10, 1960 Commissioned:
August 11, 1962 Decommissioned:
December 17, 1990 Fate: Sold
for scrap, 15 Apr 1994 but was subsequently repossessed and is currently
awaiting disposal, berthed at Philadelphia NISMF. She was sold by DRMS, 10
Feb 1999, for scrap. Metro Machine Corp of
Norfolk, VA awarded contract for the dismantling and recycling of Barney to
be completed by August 2009 at Norfolk. |
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Homeport:
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Namesake:
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named after and in honor of Commodore
Josuah Barney (1759 – 1818); > see history, below; |
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Ship’s
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament,
Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO
>> Guided
Missile Destroyer / Charles F. Adams – Class |
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Josuah
Barney |
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Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval
Historical Center |
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Namesake
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Commodore Josuah Barney (July
6, 1759 – December 1, 1818): |
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Josuah Barney, naval
officer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 6 July 1759; died in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, 1 December 1818. He left his father's farm while yet a child to
go to sea, and navigated a vessel when but sixteen years old. He was made
master's mate of the "Hornet," one of the first cruisers fitted out
by the continental congress, and took part in Com. Hopkins's descent upon New
Providence and capture of British stores, in February 1776. He was made a
lieutenant for gallantry in the action between the schooner "Wasp"
and the British brig "Tender" in Delaware bay, and was assigned to
the sloop "Sachem," which captured a British privateer. While
prize-master on board a captured vessel he was taken prisoner, but was soon
exchanged. In the spring of 1777 he took part on board the Andrea Doria"
in the defense of the " Delaware." He was lieutenant of the frigate
"Virginia," which, before she got to sea, ran aground in Chesapeake
bay and was captured by the enemy on 30 March 1778. After having been again
exchanged in August 1778, he joined a privateer which brought into
Philadelphia a valuable prize in 1779. He was again captured and exchanged in
1779, and afterward served on board the sloop-of-war "Saratoga,"
and, in the capture of the ship " Charming Molly" with two brigs,
he led the boarding-party. The day after, when he was in charge of one of the
prizes, the three vessels were re-taken by the "Intrepid," of 74
guns. He was confined in Portsmouth prison until May 1781, when he made his
escape. He was re-taken, but again escaped, and reached Philadelphia in March
1782. He was placed in command of the "Hyder Ally," of 16 guns,
fitted out by the state of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of clearing the
Delaware of British privateers. On 8 April 1782, he captured a British sloop
of war, the "General Monk," of 18 guns, off Cape May after a severe
engagement. For this exploit Captain Bar-hey was voted a sword by the Pennsylvania
legislature. He was made commander of the captured ship. He sailed for France
in the "General Monk," in November 1782, with dispatches for Dr.
Franklin, and returned with the information that preliminaries of peace had
been signed, and bringing a large sum lent by the French govern-merit. After
the war he engaged in commerce and traveled in the west. In 1793 he was
captured by an English brig and imprisoned as a pirate. He declined the
command of one of the frigates built to resist the depredations of the Algerine
corsairs. In 1794 he accompanied Monroe to France, was the bearer of the
American flag to the national convention, and entered the service of the
French government, which gave him a captain's commission and made him
commander of a squadron. In 1800 he resigned and returned to America. In the
first year of the war of 1812-'15 he engaged in privateering. On 24 April.
1814, he was commissioned a captain in the navy and appointed to the command
of the flotilla for the defense of Chesapeake bay. He was ordered to the
defense of Washington in July and severely wounded and taken prisoner in the
battle of Bladensburg. For his gallant conduct in the defense of the capital
he received a sword from the city of Washington and a vote of thanks from the
Georgia legislature. The ball in his thigh was never extracted, and the
distress from the wound obliged him to return from a mission to Europe in
October 1815. He resided on his farm at Elk-ridge until 1818, when, after a
visit to the west, he purchased a large tract in Kentucky, and was on the way
thither when he was taken ill at Pittsburg and died. See "Memoirs of
Commodore Barney" by Mary Barney (Boston, 1832).*His son, John, member
of congress from Baltimore from 1825 to 1829, died in Washington, District of
Columbia, 26 January 1856, aged seventy-two years. He left unfinished a
record of "Personal Recollections of Men and Things" in America and
Europe. |
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USS Barney (DDG
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ship’s history
wanted … |
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