On 15 May, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby received the bell of USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) on behalf of the U.S. Navy from the Royal Navy’s Second Sea Lord Vice Adm. Martin Connell during a ceremony at Lancaster House, London.
On 17 May 1987 USS Stark (FFG-31), while on patrol in the Persian Gulf, was struck by two Iraqi launched Exocet air-to-ground missiles, which killed 37 crewmembers and wounded another 21.