USS McCaffery (DD-860)
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 1 October 1944 |
| Launched: | 12 April 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 26 July 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 11 June 1974 |
| Struck: | 30 September 1973 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,460 tons (full) |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in |
| Draught: | 14 ft 4 in |
| Propulsion: | Two-screw General Electric geared turbines, 60,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36.8 knots |
| Range: | 4,500 nm @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 336 |
| Armament: | 6 5", 12 40mm., 11 20mm., 10 21" tt |
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USS McCaffery (DD-860) (later DDE-860), named for Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. McCaffery USMC (1906-1943) killed in action at Bougainville on 1 November 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at San Pedro in California on 1 October 1944, launched on 12 April 1945 by Miss Patricia McCaffery, niece of Lieutenant Colonel McCaffery and commissioned on 26 July 1945.
McCaffery operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, 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 in 1961, participated in quarantine operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, acted as communications relay ship for the Mercury space shot in May 1963, participated in the recovery missions for the Gemini IX and Gemini XII space projects, and 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.
McCaffery was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 September 1973, and sold for scrap on 11 June 1974.