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U.S.S. CARPENTER

(DD-825)

LUKU MOKOLUU (KILLER OF UNDERSEAS BOATS

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USS CARPENTER (DD-825) - a Gearing-class destroyer

In Commission 1949 to 1981

DD-825 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUL1945-Keel Date: 30 JUL 1945
at Consolidated Steel Corporation Orange TX
SEP1945-Launch Date: 28 SEP 1945
DEC1949-Commissioned: 15 DEC 1949
JAN1952-JAN1953Middle Pacific
JAN1952-JAN1954pearl harbor
MAR1957-Shellback Initiation - 15 MAR 1957 - Pacific Ocean
JAN1960-OCT1960West Pac
JUL1962-DEC1962West Pac
JUL1963-Shellback Initiation - 14 JUL 1963 - Pacific Ocean
NOV1963-APR1964West Pac
DEC1965-JUL1966West Pac
DEC1965-JUN1966West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN1966-DEC1971West Pac-Viet Nam
JUL1966-SEP1966West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN1967-JAN1968West Pac-Viet Nam
MAR1967-SEP1967Far East 1967
AUG1967- Shellback Initiation - 8 AUG 1967 - Pacific Ocean
OCT1968-APR1969West Pac-Viet Nam
OCT1968-APR1969West Pac-Viet Nam
OCT1968-MAR1970West Pac
MAY1969-Shellback Initiation - 22 MAY 1969 - Pacific Ocean
MAY1969- Shellback Initiation - 22 MAY 1969 - Pacific Ocean
JUN1969-JUN1969Apollo 11
MAR1971-NOV1971West Pac-Viet Nam
SEP1971-MAR1972West Pac-Viet Nam
SEP1971-MAR1972West Pac-Viet Nam
JUL1973-AUG1973West Pac-Viet Nam
FEB1981-Decommissioned: 20 FEB 1981

DD-825 General Specifications

Named for: Donald M. Carpenter

Displacement: 3460 tons

Length: 390 feet 6 inches

Beam: 40 feet 10 inches

Draft: 14 feet 4 in

Final Disposition: Leased to Turkey 20 February 1981



USS CARPENTER (DD-825)



Carpenter (DDK 825) was launched as DD-826 on 28 December 1945 by Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange Tex.; sponsored by Mrs. D. M. Carpenter and commissioned 15 December 1949 Commander J. B. Grady in command.


Carpenter was reclassified DDK on 28 January 1948 and completed as a hunter-killer destroyer at the Newport News Shipbuilding Corp. in 1949. Following her commissioning and shakedown she was reclassified DDE on 4 March 1960 and assigned to the Pacific Fleet.


Carpenter cleared Norfolk 26 June 1950 for her home port Pearl Harbor arriving 13 July. Local operations were conducted until 4 February 1952 when she sailed for duty in the Korean War. During her tour with TF 77 she patrolled the Taiwan Strait twice entered the dangerous waters of Wonsan Harbor to rescue downed aviators and took part in hunter-killer exercises. Reporting to TG 95.1 in the Yellow Sea 28 May Carpenter's guns pounded the Choda Islands off the west coast of Korea on 1 and 2 June. The destroyer returned to Pearl Harbor 29 June for a summer of operations in Hawaiian waters.


After fleet exercises at Eniwetok and Kwajalein in the fall of 1952 Carpenter prepared for her second tour of duty with TF 77 off the east coast of Korea. She sailed for the western Pacific May 1953 and took part in the smashing bombardment of Hungnam on 12 and 13 June. Once more she returned to patrol vigilantly in the Taiwan Strait and took part in hunter-killer exercises before returning to Pearl Harbor 19 December 1953.


From the close of the Korean War through 1960 Carpenter alternated periods of training exercises and regular overhauls at Pearl Harbor with annual deployments in the Far East. These tours in the Western Pacific included operations in the Philippines. assignments on patrol in the Taiwan Strait exercises off Japan and Okinawa and visits to ports in Japan as well as Honk Kong. On both her 1957 and 1958 tours she sailed outward hound by way of Samoa; Sydney Australia; Manus; and Guam thus varying the usual passage via Midway to Japan.


Carpenter received five battle stars for Korean War service.

[Note: The above USS CARPENTER (DD-825) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS CARPENTER (DD-825) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]