USS Deyo (DD-989), a Spruance-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Vice Admiral Morton L. Deyo (1887–1973), a veteran destroyerman and distinguished naval gunfire support task force commander of World War II.
USS Deyo underway 10 December 1991
USS Iowa (BB-61), USS Deyo (DD-989), and USS Comte de Grasse (DD-974) as part of the Iowa Battleship Battle Group
USS Deyo operating in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on 29 March 2003.
Deyo, foreground, steams off the port side of the Soviet aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in the waters south of Italy. Admiral Kuznetsov was en route to duty with the Soviet Northern Fleet.
The Spruance-class destroyer was developed by the United States to replace the many World War II–built Allen M. Sumner- and Gearing-class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the United States Navy during the 1970s and 1980s. It was named in honor of U.S. Navy Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, who successfully led major naval battles in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II such as the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
USS Briscoe on 21 March 2003
Six Spruance-class destroyers fitting out, c. May 1975
starboard quarter view of Fife
Ingersoll with only ASROC launcher forward, as all destroyers were initially built. Image also shows an example of black masts and no Phalanx CIWS