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U.S.S. MEREDITH
(DD-890)CALL SIGN RELENTLESS
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USS MEREDITH (DD-890) - a Gearing-class destroyer
In Commission 1945 to 1979DD-890 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DD-890 Shellback Initiation | Add a DD-890 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JAN | 1945 | - | Keel Date: 27 JAN 1945 at Consolidated Steel Corporation Orange TX | ||
JUN | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 28 JUN 1945 | ||
DEC | 1945 | - | Commissioned: 31 DEC 1945 | ||
JAN | 1954 | - | JUN | 1954 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
JAN | 1956 | - | JUN | 1956 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
SEP | 1956 | - | DEC | 1956 | Mediterranean - Egypt - Suez Canal |
APR | 1957 | - | JUL | 1957 | Caribbean |
JUN | 1958 | - | SEP | 1958 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1958 | - | OCT | 1958 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
FEB | 1959 | - | AUG | 1959 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1960 | - | JUN | 1961 | FRAM MK I Conversion U.S. Naval Shipyard Philadelphia PA |
JAN | 1961 | - | JAN | 1962 | Guantanamo Bay |
AUG | 1961 | - | Shellback Initiation - 8 AUG 1961 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
AUG | 1961 | - | Shellback Initiation - 8 AUG 1961 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
SEP | 1961 | - | DEC | 1961 | South Atlantic |
AUG | 1962 | - | MAR | 1963 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
FEB | 1964 | - | JUL | 1964 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1966 | - | DEC | 1966 | Mediterranean |
MAY | 1967 | - | DEC | 1967 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1968 | - | JUL | 1968 | Regular Overhaul |
JAN | 1969 | - | SEP | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1969 | - | AUG | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUN | 1970 | - | DEC | 1970 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1970 | - | DEC | 1970 | Mediterranean |
SEP | 1970 | - | APR | 1971 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1971 | - | NOV | 1971 | Dry Dock |
FEB | 1972 | - | SEP | 1972 | Mediterranean |
DEC | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 27 DEC 1972 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUN | 1979 | - | Decommissioned: 29 JUN 1979 |
DD-890 General Specifications
Class: Gearing-class destroyer
Named for: Jonathan Meredith
Complement: 267 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 2425 tons
Length: 391 feet
Beam: 41 feet
Flank Speed: 32 knots
Final Disposition: Transferred to Turkey 29 June 1979
USS MEREDITH (DD-890)
The fourth Meredith (DD-890) was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange Tex. 27 January 1945; launched 28 June 1945 sponsored by Miss Juliette S. Kepper great-great-great-grandniece of Sergeant Meredith and commissioned 31 December 1945 Comdr. W. B. Wideman in command.
Following sea trials and shakedown exercises in the spring of 1946 Meredith was employed for a brief period in training submarine officers at New London Conn. before steaming south to serve as plane guard for Randolph during the 1946 midshipmen summer cruise. In the late fall she pointed her bow northward for operations off Newfoundland and Greenland. Remaining in the western Atlantic the following year she cruised from Maine to the Caribbean participating once again in a midshipmen training cruise. The first part of 1948 was spent in conducting experimental tests for the Operational Development Force after which in May she sailed with other ships of her squadron DesRon 6 for her first overseas deployment. From that time until 1953 she got underway in the spring of each year for the Mediterranean and duty with the 6th Fleet. Her 2d Fleet employment for the same period included Arctic maneuvers (November 1949) and several Caribbean cruises as well as training cruises with reservists and another midshipmen summer cruise (1952).
On 7 January 1953 Meredith entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for habitability conversion which lasted into November. She then resumed the alternation of duty tours with the 2d and 6th Fleets. During her 1958 oversee deployment she served briefly with the Middle East Force as she and HMS Loch Fyne stood by in the Euphrates Delta area after the Iraqi revolution of 15 July.
Toward the end of the following year Meredith reassigned to DesRon 14 was slated for FRAM (Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization). Entering the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 28 June 1960. she remained for 1 year and 2 days during which time her bridge was enclosed her torpedo deck was modified to allow the installation of ASROC and her 7-year-old 3-inch battery was replaced by a helicopter hanger and flight deck to accommodate the DASH (Drone Antisubmarine Helicopter) weapons system.
On 1 July 1961
the "new" Meredith sailed for her new home
port
Mayport
Fla. After refresher training
she got underway
for a good will tour of various ports in the Caribbean and along
the west coast of Africa from Freetown
Sierra Leone
to
Capetown
Republic of South Africa. While en route she
collected oceanographic data which included piscatoral and avian
surveys as well as hydrologic information. Returning to Mayport
18 February 1962
she further tested and evaluated the ASROC
system before heading north to embark midshipmen for the
fourth time. In August
the destroyer once again transited the
Atlantic for overseas deployment. This time
as in 1958
part of
that deployment (14 October to 1 December) was spent with
MidEastFor
the remainder In the Mediterranean. Since that
time
into 1969
Meredith has continued to rotate between duty in
the Mediterranean and operations in the western Atlantic
the
latter of which
in November 1965
brought her into the space
age with an assignment to the Project Gemini Recovery
Operations.
[Note: The above USS MEREDITH (DD-890) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS MEREDITH (DD-890) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]