USS Perkins (DD-877)
Perkins underway following her FRAM II modernization, c. mid-1960s.
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Perkins |
| Namesake: | George H. Perkins |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 19 June 1944 |
| Launched: | 7 December 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1973 |
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| Struck: | 15 January 1973 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Argentina, 15 January 1973 |
 Argentina
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| Name: | ARA Comodoro Py |
| Acquired: | 15 January 1973 |
| Struck: | 1984 |
| Identification: | D 27 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target, 15 June 1987 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 |
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USS Perkins (DD/DDR-877) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named for Commodore George H. Perkins USN (1835–1899).
Perkins was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 19 June 1944, launched on 7 December 1944 by Mrs. Larz Anderson (Isabel Weld Perkins) and commissioned on 4 April 1945.
Following shakedown off Cuba, Perkins entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for conversion to a radar picket destroyer. In July 1945 she underwent refresher training, rendezvoused with the aircraft carrier Boxer on 20 July, and headed for the Pacific. At Pearl Harbor she joined Destroyer Division 52 (DesDiv 52) and on 19 August sailed for the Far East. She entered Tokyo Bay the day of the formal Japanese surrender, on 2 September, and on the 3rd joined Task Force 38 (TF 38). Operations in the Marshalls, Marianas, and off Japan followed and in April 1946 she returned to Pearl Harbor. On the 28th she arrived at San Diego, California whence she operated for the next year.
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