USS Leary (DD-879)
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USS Leary (DD-879), named for Lieutenant Clarence F. Leary USNRF (1894-1918), executive officer of Carlton Hall who died from burns received when he entered a burning hold in an attempt to save the ship and its crew, and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 11 August 1944, launched on 20 January 1945 by Mrs. Theodore S. Wilkinson, wife of Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson and commissioned on 7 May 1945. Leary alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet, participated in blockade operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul between April 1964 and January 1965, and served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam. USS Leary was decommissioned on 31 October 1973, transferred to Spain and rename Langara. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 June 1975 and scrapped in 1992.