USS MULLINNIX DD-944

SHIP HISTORY

"Destroyers – 'Tin Cans' as they are affectionately called by those who man them – are the busybodies of the fleet. Always looking for trouble – generally finding it. Proud little ships because they bear the names of great heroes of the service and keep alive the fighting traditions of our Navy.

These ships have to be built sweet, built tight, men are going to be fighting from these decks. They’re not 'its', they are 'shes'. They curve in the right places, wear a coat of paint, and they squawk loud in an argument.

They are a hunk of steel, paint, rivets, then they slide into the water and get a name. A crew will come swarming over her gangway like blood running into her veins. She’ll throb, she’ll breath, she’ll be alive. Yea, she’ll be stubborn, tricky, temperamental at times – a woman.

Just look at her, personality, class..."

Edward G. Robinson
Opening scene of the movie "Destroyer"
1943

USS Mullinnix DD-944 - 1972 Vietnam Gunline
(turn your sound on...)

Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!
Psalm 93:4

Mux Tribute Video
(Courtesy Melvin Douglas)

Mux History Video Clip From 2005 Reunion (avi)

1957 - Launching

1958 - Commissioning

1958 - Home Port, Norfolk, VA
1958 - Mux 1st Shake Down
1958 - Mux 1st Cruise
1958 - Boston Shipyard

1959 - Unitas I
1959 - 2ND Fleet/NATO Exercises

1959/60 - Med
1959/60 - Med Cont'd 1960

1960 - D&S/Dry Docks/VA Capes

1960 - Gitmo 6 Jul-11 Aug

1960 - Fallex Warmup 14 Aug-6 Sep

1960 - Northern Europe Cruise

1961 - Med

1961 - Key West, Florida

1962 - Pre-Unitas III

1962 - Unitas III

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 - Overhaul/Shake Down
1963 - Mux in the Twilight Zone

1964 - Montreal, Canada
1964 - New York City

1965 - Burmuda, Gemini, Dominican Republic Crisis

1965 - Med Cruise
1965 - Thanksgiving in Bermuda

1966 - Vietnam Gunline
1966 - Coming Home
1967 - Pre-Unitas VIII
1967 - Unitas VIII
1968 - Shipyards / Gitmo
1969 - Vietnam Gunline
1970 - Caribbean
1970 - Med
1970 - F Wood Reports to Mux
1971 - Springboard
1972 - Goodwill Cruise
1972 - Vietnam Gunline
1972 - Post-Vietnam
1973 - Portsmouth Drydock
1974 - Gitmo
1974 - Middle East
1975-6 Med Cruise
1976 - North Atlantic
1977 - Brooklyn Shipyards
1978/9 Middle East Cruise
1979 North Atlantic Cruise
1980 Middle East Cruise
1981 Middle East Cruise
1982 - COC
1982-3 Middle East Cruise
1983 - Decomm
1992 - Sinkex
1995 - X-Files
21st Century
Home

Mux Zippo '69

Unknown Location, Unknown Date

Mullinnix History - 3 Page Brochure

Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #46

Mullinnix appears in this 1992 video

Click on the image above to open the (~30M) PDF file

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