USS Warrington (DD-843)
USS Warrington (DD-843)
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| Name: | USS Warrington |
| Namesake: | Lewis Warrington, awarded Congressional Gold Medal |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 23 April 1945 |
| Launched: | 27 September 1945 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Katherine Chubb Sheehan |
| Commissioned: | 20 December 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1972 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1972 |
| Homeport: | Newport, Rhode Island |
| Fate: | transferred to Taiwan, 24 April 1973, for spare parts |
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| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Tons burthen: | 3,460 tons |
| Length: | 390' 6" (119 m) (oa) |
| Beam: | 40' 10" (12.4 m) |
| Draft: | 14' 4" (4.4 m) (Max) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 SHP (44.7 MW); General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 NM@ 20 Knots (8.300 km @ 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 336 officers and enlisted |
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USS Warrington (DD-843) was a Gearing-class destroyer that served the U.S. Navy from the end of World War II to the Vietnam War, when she was damaged by two underwater explosions, causing her to be listed as “beyond repair” and excessed to the Navy of the Republic of China.
The third U.S. Navy ship to be so named, Warrington (DD-843) was laid down on 14 May 1945 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corporation; launched on 27 September 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Katherine Chubb Sheehan; and commissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 20 December 1945, Comdr. Don W. Wulzen (later Rear Admiral) in command.
Warrington conducted shakedown training and winter exercises in the West Indies during February and early March and then returned to Boston, Massachusetts, for duty in Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 82, Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 8.
During the next year, the destroyer cruised almost the length of the eastern seaboard plane-guarding for carriers such as Ranger (CV-4). Late in the spring of 1946, she joined Little Rock (CL-91) in an extended cruise to Europe and visited ports in England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands before entering the Mediterranean for her first tour of duty with the U.S. 6th Fleet. That assignment ended on 8 February 1947 when she passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on her way back home. Warrington arrived at New York City on 19 February and entered the naval shipyard there for voyage repairs.
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