USS Aulick (DD-569)
USS Aulick off Mare Island on 24 February 1945,
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Aulick |
| Namesake: | John H. Aulick |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 14 May 1941 |
| Launched: | 2 March 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Thaddeus A. Thomson |
| Commissioned: | 27 October 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 September 1975 |
| Identification: | DD-569 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Hellenic Navy, 21 August 1959 |
 Greece
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| Name: | Sfendoni |
| Acquired: | 21 August 1959 |
| Struck: | 1991 |
| Identification: | D-85 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1997 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fletcher-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,050 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 8 in (12.09 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45,000 kW); 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 329 |
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USS Aulick (DD-569) was an American Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore John H. Aulick (1787–1873).
Aulick was laid down on 14 May 1941 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation; launched on 2 March 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Thaddeus A. Thomson, the wife of Captain Thaddeus A. Thomson who was then the acting commandant of the 8th Naval District; and commissioned on 27 October 1942, Lieutenant Commander O. P. Thomas, Jr., in command.
Following her commissioning, the destroyer conducted shakedown training in the Gulf of Mexico and out of Casco Bay, Maine, and departed Philadelphia on 23 January 1943, bound for the South Pacific. She transited the Panama Canal and paused at Bora Bora, Society Islands, before making Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 12 February. After a week of antisubmarine patrol off New Caledonia, Aulick joined Task Force 64 (TF 64) in the Coral Sea and stood by to support an American force landing on the Russell Islands.
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