USS Lansdowne (DD-486)

USS Lansdowne disembarking the Japanese party into a boat from Iowa for transport to Missouri for the surrender ceremony, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945.
History
United States
Name:	Lansdowne
Namesake:	Zachery Lansdowne
Builder:	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down:	31 July 1941
Launched:	20 February 1942
Commissioned:	29 April 1942
Decommissioned:	2 May 1946
Fate:	Transferred to Turkey, 10 June 1949
Struck:	15 August 1949
Motto:	"We are going through together"
Honours and awards:	12 Battle Stars
Turkey
Name:	Gaziantep
Acquired:	10 June 1949
Struck:	1973
Fate:	Scrapped in 1973
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,630 tons (2,200 tons loaded)
Length:	348 ft 4 in (106.17 m)
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draft:	17 ft 5 in (5.31 m)
Propulsion:	57,000 shp (43,000 kW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers
Speed:	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range:	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament:	4 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns, 8 × 1.1 in (27.9 mm) guns (2×4), 4 × 40 mm AA guns. 5 × 20 mm AA guns, 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Lansdowne (DD-486), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. He was awarded the Navy Cross "for distinguished service ... as one of the crew of the British airship R34, which in July 1919, made the first successful nonstop passage from England to the United States."

Lansdowne was laid down on 31 July 1941 by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey and launched on 20 February 1942, sponsored by Miss Peggy Lansdowne, daughter of Lt.Cmdr. Lansdowne. The ship was commissioned on 29 April 1942, Lt. Cmdr. W. R. Smedberg III in command.

Lansdowne first operated along the Atlantic seaboard on shakedown, antisubmarine, and escort duty, and attacked an enemy submarine off Cape Hatteras on 3 July. Following a severe depth charge attack, large quantities of oil bubbled to the surface and it was presumed the submarine had been sunk. Arriving at Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, 13 July, the destroyer was sent to a position where PC-458 had located an enemy submarine. Upon arrival, Lansdowne launched a depth charge attack. Large quantities of oil rose to the surface, and the forward motion of the submarine ceased. Postwar records established that U-153 was sunk by these attacks.