U.S.S. Robert A. Owens
DDE-827
1952
(Spider Navy SN 3-05a)
- Class: Gearing - 2 DDK conversions of 1946
- Displacement: 3,512 tons full load
- Dimensions: 391' x 41'2" x 20'
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 60,000 = 32 knots
- Armament: 4-3"/50 (2x2), 8-20mm (4x2) AA
- ASW: 1 trainable Hedgehog; 2 Mk 108 Weapon Alfa; 4 ASW TT
- Complement: 322
- Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
- Keel Laid: 29 Oct 1945
- Launched: 15 Jul 1946
- Commissioned: 5 Nov 1949
- Decommissioned: 16 Feb 1982
- Notes: Laid down as DD-827 but reclassified DDK-827 on 28 Jan 1948 before completion. Following shakedown as one of the first hunter-killer destroyers, she was reclassified DDE-827 on 4 Mar 1950. Operated in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean including weapons tests during which she sank U-2513 near Key West on 7 Oct 1951. During the 1950s and 60s she rotated between the Second and Sixth Fleets. She assisted in the recovery operations for Mercury 2 in Nov 1960 and Mercury 6 in Feb 1962. Reclassified DD-827 on 7 Aug 1962, she was part of the quarantine force during the Cuban Missile Crisis later that year. She received a FRAM overhaul in 1964 and then was part of the recovery force for Gemini 3 in Mar 1965 and Gemini 4 in Jun 1965. She participated in the search for the lost nuclear submarine Scorpion in 1968. By 1978 she was assigned to the Naval Surface Reserve Force as a training vessel. After decommissioning in 1982 she was transferred to the Republic of Turkey and served as TCG Alcitepe (D-346) in the Turkish Navy until 1999.
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