USS Brownson (DD-868)
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USS Brownson (DD-868), named for Rear Admiral Willard Herbert Brownson, USN (1845-1935), was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 13 February 1945, launched on 7 July 1945 by Miss Caroline Brownson Hart, granddaughter of Admiral Brownson and commissioned on 17 November 1945. Brownson was placed in a reduced operational status at Bath in Maine but resumed active operations in October 1946 and alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. USS Brownson was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 September 1976 and sold for scrap on 10 June 1977.