Allied Warships

USS McCalla (ii) (DD 488)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBristol 
PennantDD 488 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Sep 1941 
Launched20 Mar 1942 
Commissioned27 May 1942 
End service17 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 17 May 1946.
Stricken 7 June 1949.
Transferred to Turkey on 28 April 1949 being renamed Giresun.
Giresun was stricken and scraped in 1973.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. William Goodwin Cooper, USN27 May 1942> Oct 42

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