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Allied Warships

USS Lansdowne (DD 486)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBristol 
PennantDD 486 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down31 Jul, 1941 
Launched20 Feb, 1942 
Commissioned29 Apr, 1942 
End service2 May, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 2 May 1946.
Stricken 15 August 1949.
Transferred to Turkey on 10 June 1949 being renamed Gaziantep.
Gaziantep was stricken and scraped in 1973. 

Noteable events involving Lansdowne include:

13 Jul, 1942
The German submarine U-153 was sunk near Colon (Panama), in position 09º46'N, 81º29'W, by depth charges from the US destroyer USS Lansdowne. (see map)


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