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USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) er en tidligere destroyer av den amerikanske marinens Gearing-klasse. Skipet ble oppkalt etter løytnant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., en marineflyger, sønn av den tidligere ambassadøren til Storbritannia, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., og eldre bror til fremtidig president John F. Kennedy. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. tjenestegjorde, med avbrudd for modernisering, til 1973. Blant høydepunktene i hennes tjeneste er blokaden av Cuba under Cuba-krisen og de flytende gjenopprettingsteamene for Gemini 6 og Gemini 7. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. er utstilt som museumsskip i Battleship Cove, Fall, Massachusetts. Hun ble lagt til National Register of Historic Places i 1976, og utpekt som et nasjonalt historisk landemerke i 1989 som en av et lite antall overlevende destroyere av Gearing-klassen.

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Den USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) is a former United States Navy destroyer that served in various missions from 1945 to 1973. The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator who died in World War II, and the older brother of President John F. Kennedy. The USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched on July 26, 1945. The ship was commissioned on December 15, 1945, and joined the Atlantic Fleet.
The USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. participated in several operations during the Cold War, such as the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and the recovery of Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 astronauts in 1965. The ship also underwent several modernizations and upgrades throughout its service life, including new weapons, radar, sonar, and helicopter systems. The USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was decommissioned on July 2, 1973, and donated to the Battleship Cove museum in Fall River, Massachusetts, where it is preserved as a National Historic Landmark and a memorial to the Kennedy family.