USS Stickell (DD-888)
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USS Stickell (DD-888), named for Lieutenant John Harlan Stickell USNR (1914-1943) killed in action at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 5 January 1945, launched on 16 June 1945 by Miss Sue Stickell and commissioned on 31 October 1945. Stickell operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, underwent conversion to a radar picket destroyer at Long Beach between 13 December 1952 and 2 September 1953, participated in the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1963, 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 Stickell was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 July 1972, transferred to Greece and renamed Kanaris.