USS Charles H. Roan
USS Charles H. Roan (DD-853)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Charles H. Roan |
| Namesake: | Charles H. Roan |
| Laid down: | 2 April 1945 |
| Launched: | 15 March 1946 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Lillabel Roan |
| Commissioned: | 12 September 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 September 1973 |
| Struck: | 21 September 1973 |
| Homeport: | Newport, Rhode Island |
| Identification: | DD-853 |
| Nickname(s): | The Jolly Cholly |
| Fate: | transferred to Turkey 1973 |
 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak |
| Acquired: | 1973 |
| Identification: | D 351 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1995 |
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| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,425 tons |
| Length: | 390.5 ft (119.0 m) |
| Beam: | 41.1 ft (12.5 m) |
| Draught: | 18.5 ft (5.6 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 367 |
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USS Charles H. Roan (DD-853) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Charles Howard Roan, a United States Marine who lost his life in action on the island of Palau during World War II.
Charles H. Roan was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts, launched on 15 March 1946, and commissioned on 12 September 1946.
From her home port at Newport, Rhode Island, Charles H. Roan operated through 1960 on training exercises along the east coast and in the Caribbean. Typifying the manifold missions of the destroyer, she trained with aircraft carriers, with submarines, in convoy escort exercises, and in amphibious operations. In addition, she gave service as part of the midshipman training squadron, as engineering school ship for Destroyer Force, Atlantic, and in North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises.
On her first overseas deployment, Charles H. Roan sailed from Newport 9 February 1948 for a cruise which took her to the Mediterranean and service with the 6th Fleet, then into the Persian Gulf. She returned to Newport 26 June, and took up the training schedule necessary to prepare her for a 1949 Mediterranean tour. In 1950 her armament was extensively altered, and her next lengthy cruise came in summer 1953, when she carried midshipmen to South American ports.
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