Curtis Wilbur (U.S.S.)

George Schneider (Email to Nauticapedia 01/04/2025) stated "This was USS CURTIS WILBUR (DDG 54). I've often commented on the Navy's less-than-effective classes of ships, but the ARLEIGH BURKE class destroyers, I think 20 years in the making, are a real success story. I'm sure you can see the variations between this, one of the first, and HIGBEE, completed some 3 decades later. Further testimony to their success is that not a single unit of the class (now numbering about 75) has been decommissioned, and at least 20 more are being built."