- USS Harwood (DD-861)
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Career (USA) 
Name: USS Harwood Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Pedro, California Laid down: 29 October 1944 Launched: 22 May 1945 Commissioned: 28 September 1945 Decommissioned: 1 February 1971 Struck: 1 February 1971 Fate: Sold to Turkey, 17 December 1971 Career (Turkey) 
Name: TCG Kocatepe (D 354) Acquired: 17 December 1971 Fate: Sunk in error by Turkish aircraft, 22 July 1974 General characteristics Class and type: Gearing-class destroyer Displacement: 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full Length: 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) Beam: 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) Draft: 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) Propulsion: General Electric geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) Speed: 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph) Range: 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) Complement: 336 Armament: • 6 × 5"/38 caliber guns
• 12 × 40 mm AA guns
• 11 × 20 mm AA guns
• 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
• 6 × depth charge projectors
• 2 × depth charge tracksUSS Harwood (DD/DDE-861) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Commander Bruce L. Harwood USN (1910–1944) who was twice awarded the Navy Cross, and killed in action during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Harwood was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at San Pedro in California on October 29, 1944, launched on May 22, 1945, by Mrs. Bruce Lawrence Harwood, widow of Commander Harwood and commissioned on September 28, 1945.
Harwood 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 between May 2, 1961, and February 2, 1962.
Harwood was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on February 1, 1971, transferred to the Turkish Navy on December 17, 1971, and renamed TCG Kocatepe (D 354). The ship was sunk in error by Turkish aircraft on July 22, 1974, mistaking it for a Greek vessel during Turkish landings on Cyprus (see also Friendly fire).
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Harwood at NavSource Naval History
Categories:- Gearing class destroyers of the United States Navy
- Ships built in Los Angeles, California
- 1945 ships
- Cold War destroyers of the United States
- Vietnam War destroyers of the United States
- United States Navy ships transferred to the Turkish Navy
- Gearing class destroyers of the Turkish Navy
- Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
- Maritime incidents in 1974
- Friendly fire incidents
- Ships sunk by aircraft
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