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Photo # NH 102749:  USS Stormes underway during the 1950s.

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USS Stormes (DD-780), 1945-1972

USS Stormes, a 2,200-ton Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer built at Seattle, Washington, was commissioned in January 1945. After shakedown at San Diego and repairs at Bremerton, Washington, she sailed for Pearl Harbor in April 1945. From there the destroyer escorted Louisville (CA-28) to Okinawa. Upon arrival in late May, she was immediately assigned to the antiaircraft screen. During her first day on station, a Japanese suicide aircraft crashed into her after torpedo mount and detonated its bomb in the magazine under her after 5"/38 gun mount. After emergency repairs, Stormes sailed from Okinawa in August on one propeller shaft for full repairs at San Francisco.

Following refresher training, Stormes sailed in January 1946 for the east coast. In March 1946 she escorted Midway (CVB-41) during Operation Frostbite, a test of carrier operations in sub-zero temperatures. Following three years of routine Atlantic Fleet duties from her Norfolk base, the destroyer sailed to Charleston, S.C. in August 1950 for inactivation. In September 1950, however, Stormes was reactivated because of the Korean War. In May 1951 she sailed for the west coast and then joined the 7th Fleet. She returned to Norfolk in January 1952 after performing shore bombardment, carrier escort, pilot rescue, and ASW duties off Korea. Highlights of her Atlantic Fleet service during the remainder of the 1950s included a world cruise between February and August 1954, and three deployments to the Mediterranean between November 1956 and February 1957, September and December 1957, and August 1959 to February 1960.

Between June 1960 and January 1961 Stormes received a FRAM II conversion at the Norfolk Navy Yard, featuring the addition of facilities for a DASH drone ASW helicopter and a variable depth sonar on the stern. In November 1960 she recovered a spacecraft carrying a healthy chimpanzee named Enos. In November 1962 she took part in the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. She returned to the Caribbean in May 1965 to patrol the coastal waters of the Dominican Republic during a revolution there. Following a deployment to the Mediterranean later in 1965, Stormes sailed from Norfolk in June 1966 for a deployment to the western Pacific, during which her primary duty was to serve as plane guard for Constellation (CVA-64) in the Tonkin Gulf. She returned to Norfolk via the Mediterranean in December 1966. The destroyer made two more deployments to the Mediterranean between November 1967 and April 1968, and January and May 1969, and also visited South America between July and September 1968.

Stormes began preparing for inactivation in June 1970 and was decommissioned in December 1970. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold to Iran in February 1972. Renamed Palang (DDG-9), she was modified at Philadelphia Navy Yard, with the work including removal of number two 5"/38 gun mount and fitting of Standard surface-to-air missile launchers. Palang reportedly operated for the last time in 1994 and has since probably been hulked or scrapped.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have related to USS Stormes (DD-780).

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Stormes (DD-780) -- Part II.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 102748

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Coming alongside USS Leyte (CV-32) for refueling during Operation "Frigid", 17 November 1948.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102749

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Underway during the 1950s.

    Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, from the Ted Stone collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102750

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Underway during the 1960s.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102822

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Underway on 3 November 1966.

    Photographed by Chief Photographer's Mate D. L. Podbreger, USN, of USS Constellation (CVA-64).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102823

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Underway on 3 November 1966.

    Photographed by Chief Photographer's Mate D. L. Podbreger, USN, of USS Constellation (CVA-64).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102824

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Underway on 3 November 1966.

    Photographed by Chief Photographer's Mate D. L. Podbreger, USN, of USS Constellation (CVA-64).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 102825

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Underway on 3 November 1966.

    Photographed by Chief Photographer's Mate D. L. Podbreger, USN, of USS Constellation (CVA-64).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67914

    USS Stormes
    (DD-780)

    Coming alongside USS Altair (AKS-32) for replenishment in April 1968.

    Received from USS Altair, 1969.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: K-61834

    USS Stormes (DD-780)


    Off Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 13 November 1968.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 570 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-K-61834.
    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     
    Photo #: K-61835

    USS Stormes (DD-780)


    Off Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 13 November 1968.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-K-61835.
    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     
    Photo #: K-61836

    USS Stormes (DD-780)


    Off Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 13 November 1968.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-K-61836.
    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Stormes (DD-780). The following list features some of these images:

    The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-701811
    USS Stormes (DD-780) at anchor on 31 December 1947.
    Port bow surface view. She is in her original configuration with a pole foremast and World War II era radar antennas.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1078489
    USS Stormes (DD-780) underway in coastal waters in June 1954.
    Starboard bow surface view. She is now fitted with a tripod foremast, new radars, and appears to have 3"/50 guns in place of the original 40mm.


    The following photographs were taken after Stormes had received her FRAM II modernization:

  • Photo #: USN 1065736
    USS Stormes (DD-780) fueling from USS Constellation on 13 February 1962. This was the first time Constellation had refueled a ship at sea. Photographed by PH3 O.D. Dick
    Port bow (very tight on the bow) surface view. Stormes is pitching heavily, with her forefoot out of the water.

  • Photo #: USN 1083475
    USS Stormes (DD-780) fueling from USS Constellation on 13 February 1962. This was the first time Constellation had refueled a ship at sea. Photographed by Taylor.
    Port bow surface view. The sea is much less rough than in USN 1065736

  • Photo #: USN 1119872
    USS Stormes (DD-780) underway, with crew members manning the rail, between 1961 and 1966. Image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in January 1967.
    Port broadside (rather toward the stern) surface view. Stormes appears to be cutting across the wake of another ship.

    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Stormes (DD-780) -- Part II.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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