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Uss Meredith (Dd-890) | colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USN Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | | | aunched: | | | ommissioned: | | | ecommissioned: | | | ate: | | | truck: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | | | ength: | | | eam: | | | raught: | | | ropulsion: | | | peed: | | | ange: | | | omplement: | | | rmament: | | | ircraft: | | | otto: | USS Meredith, 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.
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