USS Barney (DDG-6)

USS Barney, named for Commodore Joshua Barney USN (1759-1818), was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 10 August 1959, launched on 10 December 1960 and commissioned on 11 August 1962. USS Barney was decommissioned on 17 December 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold for scrap on 15 April 1994. The scrap contract was terminated on 1 October 1996 and the ship resold on 10 February 1999.