USS O'Hare (DD-889)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS O'Hare |
| Namesake: | Edward O'Hare |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 27 January 1945 |
| Launched: | 22 June 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 29 November 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 October 1973 |
| Reclassified: | DDR-889, 1953 |
| Struck: | 2 June 1975 |
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 Spain
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| Name: | Méndez Núñez |
| Namesake: | Casto Méndez Núñez |
| Acquired: | 31 October 1973 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 April 1992 |
| Struck: | 1992 |
| Identification: | D63 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1992 |
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| 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 (12 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Propulsion: | General Electric geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 267 |
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USS O'Hare (DD/DDR-889) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Edward "Butch" O'Hare, Medal of Honor recipient, who was shot down at Tarawa on 27 November 1943.
O'Hare was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 27 January 1945; launched on 22 June 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Selma O'Hare, the mother of Lieutenant Commander O'Hare, and commissioned on 29 November 1945.
In February 1946, following shakedown, O'Hare became an active unit of the Navy. After spending 1946 in operations ranging from New Brunswick down to the Florida Keys, she embarked her first group of midshipmen for a cruise to Latin America during the summer of 1947. Departing Norfolk, Virginia, early in May 1948 she sailed to the Mediterranean temporarily serving under the United Nations' flag as an evacuation ship off Haifa, Israel, from 24 June through July, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Several goodwill visits took place before departure for home in September at the conclusion of this first deployment with the Sixth Fleet.
Eight additional such tours of duty, prior to the end of 1962, permitted ship's company to gain a great deal of familiarity with the area. Midshipman cruises and NATO maneuvers added new vistas and dimensions to her training exercises as did several rescue operations. Twice in 1952 this destroyer received commendations for her efforts after ships had collided at sea, while in 1957 and again in 1961 aviators from the carriers Randolph and Franklin D. Roosevelt respectively were plucked from the sea. Meanwhile, to update and increase her value to the Navy, O'Hare was converted during 1953 to a radar picket ship (DDR-889) and in 1958 received installation of the electronic data system. The next major modification, in 1963, a FRAM Mk I overhaul, restored her original designation.
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