USS Harwood (DD-861)
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| Career |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | October 29 1944 |
| Launched: | May 22 1945 |
| Commissioned: | September 28 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | February 1 1973 |
| Struck: | February 1 1973 |
| Fate: | Sold to Turkish Navy December 17 1971. Sunk in error by Turkish aircraft July 22 1974 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,460 tons (full) |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (46.95 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.1 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two-screw General Electric geared turbines, 60,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36.8 knots |
| Range: | 4500 nm @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 336 |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) 38 calibre guns, 12 × 40 mm AA guns, 11 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, |
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Harwood was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at San Pedro in California on 1944 October 29, launched on May 22 1945 by Mrs. Bruce Lawrence Harwood, widow of the late Commander Harwood and commissioned on September 28 1945.
Harwood alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the New York Naval Shipyard between May 2 1961 and February 2 1962.
Harwood was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on February 1 1971, transferred to the Turkish Navy on December 17 1971 and renamed Kocatepe. The ship was sunk in error by Turkish aircraft on July 22 1974 during Turkish landings on Cyprus.
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