Namesake Essay Series | Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers - USS Barry (DDG-52)

USS Barry (DDG-52)

Who Was John Barry?

Commodore John Barry (1745–1803) was an Irish-born merchant-captain who threw in with the Continentals in 1776. Sailing first in Lexington and later the 32-gun frigate Alliance, he captured or destroyed more than

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Namesake Essay Series | Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers - USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)

Series Introduction

Why do our destroyers carry the names they do? Most of us can rattle off Arleigh Burke or John Paul Jones, yet once the list gets longer the stories blur. This project sets out to fix that. Over the coming months I’ll publish a ru

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