USS Norris (DD-859)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Norris |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down: | 29 August 1944 |
| Launched: | 25 February 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 9 June 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 December 1970 |
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| Struck: | 1 February 1974 |
| Honors and awards: |
2 battle stars (Korea) |
| Fate: | Transferred to Turkey, 1 July 1974 |
 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Kocatepe |
| Acquired: | 1 July 1974 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, June 1994 |
| 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: | 42 ft 6 in (12.95 m) |
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| Speed: | 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 288 |
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USS Norris (DD-859) was one of 98 Gearing-class destroyers in the United States Navy during the end of World War II. Norris was active from 9 June 1945 to 4 December 1970. Although built too late to see action during the war, the ship served in the Pacific, Atlantic, Asiatic, and Mediterranean areas. She was named for Major Benjamin White Norris, USMCR, who was killed in action at the Battle of Midway and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
Norris was laid down on 29 August 1944 by Bethlehem Steel Corp. in San Pedro, California. She was sponsored by the widow of Major Benjamin Norris, by proxy, Mrs. Charles Browning; and commissioned on 9 June 1945, Commander T. A. Nisemann in command.
After shakedown off California, Norris served three months with the Pre-Commissioning Training Center of Treasure Island, then sailed for duty off Hawaii. Her next assignment was Far Eastern patrol operations, for which she arrived at Hong Kong on 7 February 1946. Much of this deployment was spent preventing smuggling and privateering along the Chinese and Korean coasts. She returned to San Diego on 22 February 1947, and then returned again to the China coast where she remained from 8 January to 16 July 1948.
After an overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard which included extensive alterations enhancing her anti-submarine capability, Norris joined the Atlantic Fleet at Newport, Rhode Island in October. Reclassified as destroyer escort DDE-859 on 4 March 1950, she trained for her first Mediterranean deployment, for which she sailed on 5 July, just after the outbreak of the Korean War. She was accordingly ordered on through the Suez Canal to join the United States Seventh Fleet in the combat area.
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