High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS David R. Ray (DD-971), named for Hospital Corpsman Second Class David Robert Ray, a sailor killed in 1969 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi. USS David R. Ray (DD-971) was commissioned on 19 November 1977 in Pascagoula. The principal speaker was the Honorable James R. Sasser, U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Mrs. Donnie M. Ray, HM2 Ray's mother and the ship's sponsor, was also in attendance. On the voyage from Pascagoula to her new homeport of San Diego, the David R. Ray passed through the Panama Canal. David R. Ray, nicknamed "Sting Ray", crossed the equator for the first time on 16 May 1978. On 19 February 1979, she became the first ship to intercept a supersonic drone with the NATO RIM-7 Seasparrow Missile System.

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