USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing -class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second U.S. Navy ship named for Midshipman Loveman Noa (1878–1901). She was in commission in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1973, serving during the Cold War in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Middle East, and Indian Ocean and off the Korean Peninsula.

Noa served as rescue destroyer for Mindoro (CVE-120) during June and July 1949. From September 1949 through January 1951 she engaged in extended anti submarine training and a permanent Hunter-Killer Group as a unit of Destroyer Squadron Eight. She also made a second Mediterranean deployment during this period.

USS Noa (DD-841) – was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Midshipman Loveman Noa (1878–1901).

USS Noa (DD-841) recovering the Friendship 7 space capsule north of Haiti in the Atlantic Ocean, 20 February 1962.

We are seeking information on the USS Noa and her crews. Files and photos may be emailed to us and we will incorporate them into this page. When enough information has been assembled we will then build the ship her own section. Displacement: 2,616 tons (3,460 tons full load) Length: 390 feet 6 inches. Beam: 40 feet 10 inches.

Call Sign: NBBS Voice Call Sign: NOA (59), STEEL HEAD (60-61)

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USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Midshipman Loveman Noa (1878–1901). Noa was laid down by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, on 26 March 1945; launched on 30 July 1945, sponsored by Mrs. James Cary Jones, Jr., wife of Rear...

USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for midshipman Loveman Noa (1878–1901). Noa was laid down by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, on 26 March 1945; launched on 30 July 1945, sponsored by Mrs. James Cary Jones, Jr., wife of Rear Admiral James Cary Jones, Jr., USN; and ...

On February 20, 1962, the Bath-built USS NOA (DD-841) recovered astronaut John Glenn and his spacecraft in the Atlantic after he became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth.