USS Brownson (DD-868)

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Overview
Keel laying February 13, 1945
Launch July 7, 1945
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning November 17, 1945
Decommissioning September 30, 1976
Removed from ship register September 30, 1976
Whereabouts scrapped
Technical specifications
displacement

3460 ts

length

119 m

width

12.5 m

Draft

4.4 m

crew

336

speed

36.8 kn

The USS Brownson (DD-868) , named after Rear Admiral Willard Herbert Brownson (1845-1935), was a destroyer of the Gearing class of the United States Navy .

The keel was laid by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation on Staten Island in New York , NY on February 13, 1945. The Brownson was baptized and launched on July 7, 1945 by Miss Caroline Brownson Hart, granddaughter of Admiral Brownson she on November 17, 1945. The Brownson was placed in a reduced operational status in Bath , Maine , but remained in active service. In October 1946 she was deployed along the east coast of the USA and the Caribbean , with intermittent deployments to the Mediterranean .

In early 1947, the ship took part in Operation Highjump in Antarctica. In recognition of this, the Brownson Islands off the coast of Ellsworthland bear the name of the destroyer.

On November 8, 1950, during a night mission off Bermuda, she collided with the Charles H. Roan , which severely damaged the bow of the Brownson . The subsequent repairs in Boston lasted until February 1951. The USS Brownson was decommissioned on September 30, 1976, removed from the ship register of the US Navy and sold for scrapping on June 10, 1977.

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