USS Harwood (DD-861)
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 1944 October 29 |
| Launched: | 1945 May 22 |
| Commissioned: | 1945 September 28 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Sold to Turkish Navy 1971 December 17. Sunk in error by Turkish aircraft 1974 July 22 |
| Struck: | 1973 February 1 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,460 tons (full) |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (46.95m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.1m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft 4 in (4.3m) |
| Propulsion: | Two-screw General Electric geared turbines, 60,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36.8 knots |
| Range: | 4500 nm @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 336 |
| Armament: | 6 5", 12 40mm, 11 20mm, 10 21" tt |
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USS Harwood (DD-861) (later DDE-861), named for Commander Bruce Lawrence Harwood USN (1910-1944), twice awarded the Navy Cross, killed in action when Princeton was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 1944 October 24, was a '"Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at San Pedro in California on 1944 October 29, launched on 1945 May 22 by Mrs. Bruce Lawrence Harwood, widow of the late Commander Harwood and commissioned on 1945 September 28.
Harwood alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the New York Naval Shipyard between 1961 May 2 and 1962 February 2 . Harwood was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1971 February 1, transferred to the Turkish Navy on 1971 December 17 and renamed Kocatepe. The ship was sunk in error by Turkish aircraft on 1974 July 22 during Turkish landings on Cyprus.