USS Forrest Royal (DD-872)

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USS Forrest Royal (DD-872), named for Rear Admiral Forrest Beton Royal USN (18931945), was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 8 June 1945, launched on 17 January 1946 by Miss Katherine K. Royal, the daughter of Admiral Royal and commissioned on 29 June 1946. Forrest Royal operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War then alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet.

TCG Adatepe (D 353)

USS Forrest Royal was decommissioned on 27 March 1971, transferred to the Turkish Navy and renamed TCG Adatepe (D 353), stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 February 1973 and scrapped in 1993.



Gearing-class destroyer

Gearing | Eugene A. Greene | Gyatt | Kenneth D. Bailey | William R. Rush | William M. Wood | Wiltsie | Theo. E. Chandler | Hamner | Epperson | Frank Knox | Southerland | Keppler | Lloyd Thomas | Beale | Rowan | Gurke | McKean | Henderson | R.B. Anderson | James E. Kyes | Chevalier | Higbee | Benner | Dennis J. Buckley | Corry | New | Holder | Rich | Johnston | Robert H. McCard | Samuel B. Roberts | Agerholm | Myles C. Fox | Everett F. Larson | Goodrich | Hanson | Herbert J. Thomas | Turner | Charles P. Cecil | George K. MacKenzie | Sarsfield | Ernest G. Small | Power | Glennon | Noa | Kimberly | Fiske | Warrington | Perry | Baussell | Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. | Rupertus | Fred T. Barry | Norris | McCaffery | Harwood | Vogelgesang | Steinaker | Harold J. Ellison | Charles R. Ware | Cone | Stribling | Brownson | Arnold J. Isbell | Fechteler | Damato | Forrest Royal | Hawkins | Duncan | Henry W. Tucker | Rogers | Perkins | Vesole | Leary | Dyess | Bordelon | Furse | Newman K. Perry | Floyd B. Parks | John R. Craig | Orleck | Brinkley Bass | Stickell | O'Hare | Meredith


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