USS Ringgold (DD-500)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Ringgold |
| Namesake: | Cadwalader Ringgold |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 25 June 1942 |
| Launched: | 11 November 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Arunah Sheperdson Abell |
| Commissioned: | 30 December 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 March 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1974 |
| Identification: | DD-500 |
| Fate: | Transferred to West German Navy, 14 July 1959 |
 West Germany
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| Name: | Zerstörer 2 |
| Acquired: | 14 July 1959 |
| Identification: | D171 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Hellenic Navy, 18 September 1981 |
 Greece
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| Name: | Kimon |
| Acquired: | 18 September 1981 |
| Struck: | 1993 |
| Identification: | D42 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fletcher-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,050 long tons (2,080 t) |
| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 8 in (12.09 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW) ; 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 329 |
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USS Ringgold (DD-500), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867). Entering service in 1942 during World War II, the destroyer was served in the Pacific theater. Following the war the ship was placed in reserve before being transferred to the West German Navy and renamed Zerstörer 2 in 1959. In 1981 the destroyer was transferred to the Hellenic Navy and was renamed Kimon. Kimon was sold for scrap in 1993.
Ringgold was laid down on 25 June 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey. The ship was launched on 11 November 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Arunah Sheperdson Abell, grand niece of Rear Adm. Cadwallader Ringgold. Ringgold was commissioned on 30 December 1942, Commander Thomas F. Conley in command.
Shakedown, which took Ringgold from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and back, extended through 18 February 1943. Additional training maneuvers kept her operating in the vicinity of Trinidad until mid-July. Departing New York en route to the Pacific 21 July, she transited the Panama Canal on 27 July and reported to Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, at Pearl Harbor, where she hoisted the pennant of Commander, Destroyer Division 50.
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