US NAVY - USS ACADIA - AD-42 Challenge Coin For Sale

This is a great looking US NAVY -USS Acadia (AD–42)challenge coin. Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16\" in diameter. Front side of coin is printed and colorized while the rear side is raised lettering and gold plated. Coin is contained in an acrylic air tight holder.USS Acadia (AD-42) was a Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the service of the United States Navy, named after Acadia National Park. She was inactive and in reserve after her 1994 decommissioning at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii under Maintenance Category B, until sunk off Guam during a live fire training exercise Valiant Shield on 20 September 2010. She was the first ship to house a wartime mixed sex crew and was unofficially nicknamed \'The Love Boat\' after 10% of all women on board became pregnant during deployment.She was ordered on 11 March 1976, laid down on 14 February 1978 at San Diego by National Steel & Shipbuilding Company, launched on 28 July 1979, sponsored by Mrs. Clarence R. Bryan, wife of Vice Admiral Bryan, and commissioned on 6 June 1981.
On 16 December 1994, the Acadia was decommissioned and laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was struck from the Naval Register on 13 December 2007 and sunk as a target off Guam on 19-20 September 2010. The sinking of Acadia was part of a day-long bombardment of ordnance delivered from naval aircraft and ships during exercise Valiant Shield.*COMBINED SHIPPING AVAILABLE* For combined shipping place all items in cart then purchase all items together from cart for 1 combined shipping charge...