Allied Warships

USS Harwood (DD 861)

Destroyer of the Gearing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassGearing 
PennantDD 861 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down29 Oct 1944 
Launched22 May 1945 
Commissioned8 Sep 1945 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned at an unknown date.
Transferred to Turkey 17 December 1971 being renamed Kocatepe.
Kocatepe was sunk in error by Turkish aircraft on 22 July 1974 during Turkish landings on Cyprus.
The Turkish airforce thought that Kocatepe, along with two other sister ships, Andapete & Tiznatepe were Greek ships so they bombed them.
Kocatepe was sunk in ten minutes.

 

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1Cdr. Reid Puryear Fiala, USN29 Sep 1945Sep 1946

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