USS Wiltsie (DD-716)

History
United States
Name:	USS Wiltsie
Namesake:	Irving Wiltsie
Laid down:	13 March 1945
Launched:	31 August 1945
Commissioned:	12 January 1946
Decommissioned:	23 January 1976
Struck:	23 January 1976
Identification:	DD-716
Fate:	sold to Pakistan, 29 April 1977
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gearing-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,425 long tons (2,464 t) (standard) 3,460 long tons (3,520 t) (full)
Length:	390 ft 6 in (119.0 m) (overall)
Beam:	40 ft 10 in (12.45 m)
Draft:	14 ft 4 in (4.37 m)
Propulsion:	2 × geared turbines 2 × propellers
Speed:	35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range:	4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement:	336 officers and enlisted
Armament:	6 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber guns 12 × 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns 11 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Wiltsie (DD-716) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Irving Wiltsie.

Wiltsie was laid down on 13 March 1945 at Port Newark, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on 31 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Irving D. Wiltsie, the widow of Capt. Wiltsie; and commissioned on 12 January 1946 at the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, New York, Commander Raymond D. Fusselman in command.

Following a shakedown cruise which took the ship to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wiltsie transited the Panama Canal on 8 July 1946 and proceeded to San Diego, California. She spent the fall and winter of 1946 engaged in training exercises before departing the west coast on 6 January 1947, bound for the Far East. She subsequently operated out of Tsingtao, China, on exercises and maneuvers while standing by the American community in that port during rising local tensions between the communist and Nationalist Chinese. Wiltsie remained at Tsingtao until June 1947, when she shifted to Sasebo, Japan, for occupation duty. Departing Sasebo on 8 March 1948, the destroyer proceeded to Bremerton, Washington, for an overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

After training off the west coast, Wiltsie sailed once more for the Far East, departing San Diego on 1 October. Late that autumn, she again operated out of Tsingtao during the evacuation of Americans from that port to Yokohama because of the Chinese civil war then raging. During this period, Wiltsie briefly visited Hong Kong and Okinawa before returning to Tsingtao.

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