USS Cushing (DD-985) Ship's Crest Mug

USS Cushing (DD-985) was a Spruance-class destroyer commissioned in 1978, named for William B. Cushing — one of the most daring officers in American naval history. In 1864, Lieutenant Cushing led a small boat crew up the Roanoke River under fire and sank the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle with a spar torpedo, an act of audacity that electrified the Union Navy. The Spruance-class destroyer named in his honor served through the Cold War, the Gulf War, and nearly two decades of fleet operations before her decommissioning in 1997.