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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) Command Chaplain Lt. Eric Sanford provides a benediction during a memorial ceremony for Americans interred at Gyokusenji Temple in Shimoda, Japan during the 87th annual Black Ship Festival, May 15, 2026. The festival commemorates the 1854 arrival of Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his “black ships” to Shimoda, and the subsequent signing of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Peace and Amity marking the start of diplomacy and trade between both countries. Howard is forward-deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Taylor DiMartino)
| Date Taken: | 05.14.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 05.18.2026 21:02 |
| Photo ID: | 9692842 |
| VIRIN: | 260515-N-CL550-2359 |
| Resolution: | 8256x5504 |
| Size: | 5.86 MB |
| Location: | SHIMODA, SHIZUOKA, JP |
| Web Views: | 4 |
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USS Howard departs Shimoda, following Black Ship Festival
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