USS Joseph P Kennedy DD850

USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) was a Gearing-class destroyer commissioned by the United States Navy in December 1945. Named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator killed in World War II, the ship served extensively during the Cold War era. She participated in the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis quarantine, and performed recovery duties for the Gemini space program. The destroyer was decommissioned in 1973 and now serves as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts.