USS Bausell (DD-845)
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| Name: | USS Bausell |
| Namesake: | Lewis K. Bausell |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1945 |
| Launched: | 19 November 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 7 February 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 May 1978 |
| Struck: | 30 May 1978 |
| Identification: | DD-845 |
| Fate: | sunk as a target, 17 July 1987 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,425 tons |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119.0 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 officers and enlisted |
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USS Bausell (DD-845) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She was named for Marine Corporal Lewis K. Bausell (1924–1944), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for "conspicuous gallantry" during the Battle of Peleliu.
Bausell was laid down on 28 May 1945 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 19 November 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Lawrence K. Bausell, Corporal Bausell's mother. She was commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts on 7 February 1946, Commander James V. Bewick in command.
After a month fitting out at the Boston Naval Shipyard, the destroyer conducted an eight-week shakedown and training cruise to the West Indies. Returning to Boston on 4 June, the warship underwent four weeks of post-shakedown repairs before sailing for duty with the Pacific Fleet on 5 July. Passing through the Panama Canal soon thereafter, she arrived at her new homeport of San Diego, California on the 23d.
Bausell, although immobilized in port owing to crew shortages, joined Destroyer Division 12 (DesDiv 12) on 30 November. When enough crewmembers became available in January 1947, she began a more active period of local operations out of San Diego. The destroyer participated in fleet exercises held in the Hawaiian Islands in late February; and, in early March, she assisted Tucson in a fruitless search for survivors of the foundered merchantman Fort Dearborn. Ordered to Pearl Harbor on 8 July, she conducted reserve training duty in that port until sailing for Bremerton, Washington, on 1 October. Upon arrival, the destroyer underwent a four-month modernization overhaul.
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