USS Agerholm (DD-826)
USS Agerholm (DD-826)
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| Name: | USS Agerholm |
| Namesake: | Harold C. Agerholm |
| Laid down: | 10 September 1945 |
| Launched: | 30 March 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 20 June 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 December 1978 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1978 |
| Identification: | DD-826 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target on 18 July 1982 |
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| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,425 tons full load |
| Length: | 390.5 ft (119.0 m) |
| Beam: | 41.1 ft (12.5 m) |
| Draft: | 18.5 ft (5.6 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 367 |
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USS Agerholm (DD-826) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the only ship named for Harold Crist Agerholm (29 January 1925 – 7 July 1944), a Private First Class (Pfc.) in the 2nd Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps. He was killed during the assault on Saipan, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Agerholm was laid down on 10 September 1945 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works, launched on 30 March 1946, sponsored by Mrs. Rose Agerholm, mother of Pfc. Agerholm; commissioned on 20 June 1946, Commander Frank D. Schwartz in command.
After commissioning and fitting out, the destroyer conducted shakedown training at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, and underwent post- shakedown repairs at the Boston Naval Shipyard before receiving orders to duty with the Pacific Fleet. Proceeding to the Pacific by way of the Panama Canal, she reached her new home port of San Diego on 21 January 1947.
Agerholm was assigned to Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 12 and settled into a routine of local training operations in the waters off southern California. On 10 March, the warship sailed from San Diego on her first extended cruise to the western Pacific. While operating with the 7th Fleet, Agerholm visited the Chinese ports of Tsingtao, Shanghai, and Amoy, before they were closed to American traffic. She also visited Kwajalein, Okinawa, Hong Kong, and several ports in Japan. The destroyer returned to San Diego on 26 November and remained there for the holiday season.
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