USS Meredith (DD-890)
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USS Meredith (DD-890), named for Sergeant Jonathan Meredith USMC (1772-1805) killed in action at Tripoli on 7 August 1805, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 27 January 1945, launched on 28 June 1945 by Miss Juliette S. Kepper, great-great-great-grandniece of Sergeant Meredith and commissioned on 31 December 1945. Meredith underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard between 28 June 1960 and 1 July 1961. USS Meredith was decommissioned on 29 June 1979 and transferred to Turkey as Savastepe, and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 7 December 1979.