USS Power (DD-839)
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USS Power in 1966
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Power (DD-839) |
| Namesake: | John V. Power |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 26 February 1945 |
| Launched: | 30 June 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 13 September 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | September 1977 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1977 |
| Fate: | Sold to Republic of China, 1 October 1977 |
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 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS Shen Yang (DD-923) |
| Acquired: | 1 October 1977 |
| Reclassified: | DDG-923 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 November 2005 |
| Fate: | Possible Museum ship |
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| 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 Power (DD-839) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named for First Lieutenant John V. Power, USMC (1918–1944), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Battle of Kwajalein. This ship was involved in the Project SHAD tests off Newfoundland.
Power was laid down on 26 February 1945 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 30 June 1945; sponsored by Mrs. George F. Power, mother of Lt. Power; and commissioned on 13 September 1945 at Boston, Commander John M. Steinbeck in command.
After shakedown out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Power sailed on 9 January 1946 on the first of many Mediterranean deployments. Returning to the east coast six months later, she remained in the western Atlantic and Caribbean until late in 1948 when she again sailed for Mediterranean waters, to patrol the coast of Palestine under the direction of the United Nations Mediation Board.
During early 1950, Power operated with units of the British Royal Navy and visited ports in Northern Europe, whence she steamed to the Mediterranean for another tour with the 6th Fleet. In the summer of 1952 Power completed a South American cruise, then returned to the east coast to resume her schedule of reservist and Midshipman training cruises, fleet and type exercises, and Mediterranean deployments.
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