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Samuel B Roberts Uss. 330CFDDNST8902266 USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG58), 1988 The Oliver-Hazard Perry class guided-missile frigate, USS Samuel B The frigate was the third ship to be named after Navy Coxswain Samuel Booker Roberts Jr, who posthumously received the Navy Cross for rescuing stranded Marines from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II

-- born in San Francisco, Calif., on 12 May 1921 -- enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 13 April 1939 at Portland, Oreg Commissioned in 1986, the ship was severely damaged by an Iranian mine in 1988, leading U.S

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Roberts was named after Coxswain Samuel Booker Roberts Jr., a Navy Cross recipient, who had been commended for voluntarily steering a Higgins boat towards enemy forces at Guadalcanal, in order to. ROBERTS was the third ship in the US Navy to bear the name The frigate was the third ship to be named after Navy Coxswain Samuel Booker Roberts Jr, who posthumously received the Navy Cross for rescuing stranded Marines from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II

USS Samuel B. Roberts Sea and Job. Butler -class destroyer escort of the United States Navy which served in World War II, the first of three U.S In April 1988, the ship participated in Operation Earnest Will in.

USS Samuel B. Roberts, Sunk in Battle of Leyte Gulf, Found USNI News. Decommissioned on May 22, 2015, the ship was subsequently laid up at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard until towed to Brownsville, Tx., for scrapping in late 2022. While particpating in Operation Earnest Will, she struck an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf on April 14, 1988, resulting in severe damage and Operation Praying Mantis, an attack on Iranian ships by the U.S