USS Meredith (DD-890)
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| Name: | USS Meredith |
| Namesake: | Jonathan Meredith |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 27 January 1945 |
| Launched: | 28 June 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 31 December 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 June 1979 |
| Struck: | 7 December 1979 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Turkey, 29 June 1979 |
 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Savaştepe |
| Acquired: | 29 June 1979 |
| Identification: | D 348 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1995 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) |
| Length: | 391 ft (119 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Complement: | 267 |
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USS Meredith (DD-890), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jonathan Meredith, who saved the life of Lieutenant John Trippe of Vixen, during the Barbary Wars. The destroyer was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, on 27 January 1945; launched on 28 June 1945, sponsored by Miss Juliette S. Kopper, great-great-great-grandniece of Sergeant Meredith; and commissioned on 31 December 1945 with Commander William B. Wideman in command.
Following sea trials and shakedown exercises in the spring of 1946, Meredith was employed, for a brief period, in training submarine officers at New London, Connecticut, before steaming south to serve as plane guard for the aircraft carrier Randolph during the 1946 midshipmen summer cruise. In the late fall, she pointed her bow northward for operations off Newfoundland and Greenland. Remaining in the western Atlantic Ocean the following year, she cruised from Maine to the Caribbean, participating once again in a midshipmen training cruise. The first part of 1948 was spent in conducting experimental tests for the Operational Development Force, after which, in May, she sailed, with other ships of her squadron, Destroyer Squadron 6, for her first overseas deployment. From that time, until 1953, she got underway in the spring of each year for the Mediterranean and duty with the 6th Fleet. Her 2nd Fleet employment for the same period included Arctic maneuvers (November 1949) and several Caribbean cruises, as well as training cruises with reservists and another midshipmen summer cruise (1952).
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