USS O'Hare
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USS O'Hare (DD/DDR-889) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Edward "Butch" O'Hare, Medal of Honor recipient, who was shot down at Tarawa on 27 November 1943.
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USS O'Hare underway in the 1960s | |
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Name | O'Hare |
Namesake | Edward O'Hare |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation |
Laid down | 27 January 1945 |
Launched | 22 June 1945 |
Commissioned | 29 November 1945 |
Decommissioned | 31 October 1973 |
Reclassified | DDR-889, 1953 |
Stricken | 2 June 1975 |
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Fate | Loaned to Spain, 31 October 1973 |
Notes | Sold to Spain, 17 May 1978 |
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Spain | |
Name | Méndez Núñez |
Namesake | Casto Méndez Núñez |
Acquired | 31 October 1973 |
Decommissioned | 3 April 1992 |
Stricken | 1992 |
Identification | Hull number: D-63 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1992 |
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Displacement | 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 41 ft (12 m) |
Draft | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
Propulsion | General Electric geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 267 |
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O'Hare was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 27 January 1945; launched on 22 June 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Selma O'Hare, the mother of Lieutenant Commander O'Hare, and commissioned on 29 November 1945.