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USA | |
Name | USS Stickell |
Namesake | John H. Stickell |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 5 January 1945 |
Launched | 16 June 1945 |
Commissioned | 31 October 1945 |
Decommissioned | 13 December 1952 |
Recommissioned | 2 September 1953, as DDR-888 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1972 |
Reclassified | list error: <br /> list (help) DDR-888, 1953 DD-888, 1964 |
Stricken | 1 July 1972 |
Honors and awards | list error: <br /> list (help) 6 battle stars (Korea) 1 battle star (Vietnam) |
Fate | Transferred to Greece, 1 July 1972 |
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History | |
Greece | |
Name | HNS Kanaris (D-212) |
Namesake | Constantine Kanaris |
Acquired | 1 July 1972 |
Commissioned | 1 July 1972 |
Decommissioned | 15 September 1993 |
Stricken | 1994 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 2002 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) standard 3,520 long tons (3,576 t) full |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) 4 Babcock and Wilcox boilers Geared steam turbines, 60,000 shp (45 MW) 2 shafts |
Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 274 |
Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) As built : • 6 × 5"/38 caliber guns (3×2) • 12 × 40 mm AA guns • 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes • 1 × depth charge track After FRAM upgrade : • 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns (2×2) • 1 × MK112 eight cell ASROC launcher • 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) for Mk44/Mk46 torpedoes • 1 × depth charge track In Hellenic Navy service : • 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns (2×2) • 1 × MK112 eight cell ASROC launcher • 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) for Mk44/Mk46 torpedoes • 1 × depth charge track • 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm/62 cal. DP gun (in floor of the helicopter deck, had separate fire control) • 4 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles (2×2) (in helicopter deck) |
Aircraft carried | 2 × QH-50 DASH helicopters (1963-1976) |
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USS Stickell (DD-888) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant John H. Stickell USNR (1914–1943), who was killed in action at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.