USS Keppler (DD-765)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Keppler |
| Namesake: | Reinhardt J. Keppler |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California |
| Launched: | 24 June 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 23 May 1947 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1972 |
| Reclassified: |
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| Honors and awards: |
2 battle stars (Korea) |
| Fate: | Sold to Turkey |
 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Tınaztepe (D 355) |
| Struck: | 1982 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 267 |
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The third USS Keppler (DD/DDE-765) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She was named for Boatswain's Mate First Class Reinhardt J. Keppler (1918–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
Keppler was launched on 24 June 1946 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Shipbuilding Division, San Francisco, California sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth L. Keppler, widow of BM1c Keppler; and commissioned on 23 May 1947, Commander Peter M. Gaviglio in command.
After shakedown along the West Coast, Keppler cleared San Diego, California on 9 October 1947 for training exercises in Hawaiian waters. The destroyer then sailed to Australia and China before returning San Diego on 20 May 1948. Early in 1949 Keppler entered San Francisco Navy Yard for conversion to antisubmarine destroyer. Resuming operations on the West Coast on 9 June, she departed San Diego on 5 October for duty in the Atlantic.
Arriving Norfolk, Virginia 15 days later, she immediately commenced intensive anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercises along the Atlantic Coast. Keppler sailed to Newport, Rhode Island, her new homeport, for additional hunter-killer operations, arriving on 27 November. She was reclassified DDE-765 on 4 March 1950 and cleared Newport on 5 July for the Mediterranean Sea. Arriving Greece on 27 July, the anti-submarine destroyer was ordered to the Far East on the eve of the Korean War.
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