laststandonzombieisland

In something fairly unique in military history, two destroyers with the same name are out of the water in drydock at the same time– and both are authorized to fly Jolly Rogers.

Probably the best-preserved WWII-era Fletcher class destroyer USS Kidd (DD-661) which served from 1943 to 1964 and has been a museum ship in Baton Rouge since 1983, traveled last August to TMC shipyard in Houma for a once-in-a-generation overhaul. Earning eight battle stars for WWII and four in Korea, Kidd’s last dry dock overhaul was in 1962, so this is important for her.

Meanwhile, the Flight IIA Burke-class destroyer USS Kidd (DDG-100) just entered drydock at Vigor Marine in Seattle as part of her mid-life DDG MOD upgrade process, having commissioned at Ingalls in 2005.

Both are legends under black banners, the “Pirate of the Pacific.”