USS Hugh Purvis
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 United States
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| Name: | Hugh Purvis |
| Namesake: | Hugh Purvis |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 23 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 17 December 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 1 March 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 June 1972 |
| Struck: | 1 February 1973 |
| Fate: | Sold to Turkey 1 July 1972 |
 Turkey
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| Name: | Zafer |
| Acquired: | 1 July 1972 |
| Struck: | 1993 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1994 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,200 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
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| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range: | 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 |
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USS Hugh Purvis (DD-709), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is currently the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Hugh Purvis, a Marine who served from 1869 to 1884 and was awarded the Medal of Honor. The ship was launched by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey, 17 December 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Mary Alice Purvis, widow of Corporal Purvis; and commissioned 1 March 1945, Commander B. L. (Byron Lawrence) Gurnette in command (until 10/1/45).
Following shakedown training in the Caribbean Sea, Hugh Purvis transited the Panama Canal to take part in training exercises in Hawaiian waters after the close of World War II, returning to Casco Bay, Maine, 16 April 1946. After a long overhaul at New York she trained in the Caribbean and arrived her new homeport at Newport, Rhode Island on 14 December 1946. Hugh Purvis sailed for her first European cruise 2 February 1947 and after exercises with allied ships in the north Atlantic, formed a part of the United States' official party at the burial of King Christian X of Denmark in April. The ship returned to Newport 14 August and took part in antisubmarine exercises off the New England coast the balance of the year.
Hugh Purvis departed Newport for her first cruise with the U.S. 6th Fleet 13 September 1948. For the next five months she took part in the fleet's vital work of peacekeeping. Returning to Newport 10 February 1949, she operated from that port until sailing 27 June for New Orleans. Hugh Purvis made reserve training cruises out of the gulf port until returning to Newport and regular fleet duties 10 December 1950.
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