USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865)
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USS Charles R. Ware DD-865), named for Lieutenant Charles Rollins Ware USN (1911–1942), was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 1 November 1944, launched on 12 April 1945 by Mrs. Z. Ware and commissioned on 21 July 1945. Charles R. Ware alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. USS Charles R. Ware was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 November 1974 and sunk as a target in the Caribbean on 15 November 1981.