USS Newman K. Perry (DDR-883)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Newman K. Perry |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 10 October 1944 |
| Launched: | 17 March 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 26 July 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 February 1981 |
| Struck: | 27 February 1981 |
| Fate: | Transferred to South Korea, 1981 |
 South Korea
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| Name: | ROKS Kyong Kai |
| Acquired: | 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | 1997 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1999 |
| 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: | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 345 |
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USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883/DDR-883), a Gearing-class destroyer was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Ensign Newman K. Perry, USN (1880–1905), who was killed in a boiler explosion board Bennington on 21 July 1905.
Newman K. Perry was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 10 October 1944, launched on 17 March 1945 by Mrs. Laura P. Gunter, sister of Ensign Perry and commissioned on 26 July 1945, Commander Norman E. Smith in command.
Following shakedown, Newman K. Perry served briefly with the Atlantic Fleet. On 7 November 1945, she got underway for Pearl Harbor, whence she traveled to Japan for three months' occupation duty. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 28 March 1946 and was assigned to Joint Task Force 1 for "Operation Crossroads", the 1946 atomic bomb test series at Bikini. Sailing for the Marshall Islands on 27 May, she witnessed tests "Able" and "Baker" and, in August, steamed for the United States.
On 18 August she arrived at San Diego whence she operated until 25 August 1947. Then, with DesDiv 132, she headed west, arriving at Yokosuka on 13 September. Three days later she sailed to Tsingtao to commence a series of patrol, escort, search and rescue, ASW, and hydrographic survey missions and exercises along the China coast and off Taiwan and Okinawa. Relieved on 5 May 1948, she returned to San Diego, trained naval reservists through the summer, and in October entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul.
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