USS Cassin Young, Boston

USS Cassin Young is a Fletcher-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named for Captain Cassin Young (1894–1942), a WWII hero decorated with the Medal of Honor for his distinguished action at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. A year later, Captain Young fell in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The ship bearing his name was launched in 1943 and saw action during the Second World War and the Korean War. Near the end of WWII the vessel survived two kamikaze attacks and lost several crew members. Cassin Young was finally decommissioned in 1974 and has been preserved as a floating memorial ship at the Boston Navy Yard since 1978. She opened to the public in 1981.