USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850) is a Gearing class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is named after Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., a naval aviator and older brother of President John F. Kennedy. She was launched by Bethlehem Steel Company on July 26, 1945, and commissioned at Boston on December 15, 1945.

On February 4, 1946 Kennedy sailed for shakedown training in the Caribbean. She spent the rest of the decade conducting training exercises in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and executing peacekeeping duties as a member of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. On February 3, 1951, she joined the carrier task force attacking North Korean positions. In May she stood off Wonsan, North Korea, using her 5-inch guns for nearly a month of continuous bombardment duty. After leaving the war zone she spent the next several years completing Sixth Fleet tours of duty, midshipmen cruises, and joint NATO maneuvers.

In early 1961 Kennedy operated in the Caribbean, assisting with the first Mercury space flight's recovery efforts. She arrived at New York Naval Shipyard in July for renovation under the FRAM I (Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization) program. This conversion afforded her new anti-submarine gear, a helicopter hangar and flight deck, and other improvements designed to extend her useful life. In October 1962 she was dispatched to the Caribbean to participate in the naval blockade of Cuba. From the early 1960s until her decommissioning in 1973, the destroyer again performed innumerable duties.

After decommissioning, Kennedy was stricken from the Naval Register and removed to Fall River, Massachusetts as a unit of the Battleship Cove Museum. She is there today and open to the public as the official memorial to Massachusetts citizens who gave their lives during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. She is also home to the Admiral Arleigh Burke National Destroyermen's Museum. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. received two battle stars for Korean service.

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