The Navy destroyer USS Rupertus (DD-851) stands by to assist the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) fighting raging deck fires and explosions while operating in Gulf of Tonkin, 29 July 1967. The captain of the Rupertus maneouvered his ship within 6 metres of the burning carrier, in what Rear Admiral Harvey P. Lanham, Commander Carrier Division 2, called an act of "magnificent seamanship".

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