Bow? Where are you Going?
USS Ernest G. Small, Korean tour, Oct. 11th, 1951

USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838) participated in the naval bombardment of Hungnam and was so occupied on 7 October when she struck a mine which seriously damaged her bow, killed 9 and wounded 18. Four days later heavy seas broke the bow off and she was fitted with a stubby replacement which enabled her to reach Long Beach, arriving on 18 December 1951. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1952. and the bow of the unfinished USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767) was grafted to her hull. She also underwent conversion to a radar picket ship at this time. Recommissioned as DDR-838 on 2 December 1952.