SpruCan Spotting!
These via WarshipCam in San Diego, showing the much-modified and recently overhauled Spruance-class destroyer Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) EDD-964 (ex-USS Paul F. Foster, DD-964) of Port Hueneme Division leaving San Diego on 11 June.
Commissioned in Pascagoula in 1976, she looks great at 50!
She is the only ship of her class, the cursed Sprucans, still in existence, and had some serious first salvo service in the first Gulf War.
Perhaps the Navy will donate her to a museum once they are finally through with the old girl. She already has a vibrant veterans group.
I’ve sailed on most of the classes of post WWII destroyers as part of the INSURV Board. I liked the SPRU cans the best.
Not an INSURV guy…heartbreaker