The Naval Destroyer Museum in Bremerton, Washington features the U.S.S. Turner Joy Museum Ship. The Turner Joy was commissioned in 1959 and decommissioned in 1982.
According to the Museum:
“The Turner Joy is a Destroyer, a warship known for its speed and guns! Destroyers were known as ‘Greyhounds of the sea’ and also as ‘Tin Cans’ due to their lightweight construction.”
The Turner Joy has three 5-inch guns and two Mark 37 torpedo launchers that carry three Mark 46 torpedoes each.
The guns
Torpedoes
The Turner Joy carried the Mark 44 torpedo, a lightweight anti-submarine warfare (ASW) torpedo. Developed by the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Pasadena, California and the Aeronautical and Ordnance Systems Division of General Electric Co., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, production started in 1957.
More museum military exhibits
Naval Destroyer Museum: On the deck of the Turner Joy (photo diary)
Naval Undersea Museum: Mines (photo diary)
Naval Undersea Museum: Diversity and change in U.S. Navy submarines (museum tour)
Lewis Army Museum: Half-Tracks (photo diary)
Lewis Army Museum: An Iraqi tank and more (photo diary)
Ohio History Center: World War I (photo diary)
Veterans Memorial Museum: Military Weapons (Photo Diary)
Veterans Memorial Museum: The Vietnam War (Photo Diary)