USS Perkins (DD-877)
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| Laid down: | 19 June 1944 |
| Launched: | 7 December 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1973 |
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| Struck: | 15 January 1973 |
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USS Perkins (DD-877) was a Gearing class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore George Hamilton Perkins USN (1835-1899).
Perkins was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 19 June 1944, launched on 7 December 1944 by Mrs. Larz Anderson and commissioned on 4 April 1945. Perkins operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, alternated operations along the west coast and in Hawaiian waters with deployments to the western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1962, and served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon and Market Time operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam.
USS Perkins was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 January 1973, transferred to Argentina and renamed Comodoro Py.
See USS Perkins for other ships of this name.