USS Carpenter (DD-825)

USS Carpenter (DD-825) following her FRAM I refit
History
United States
Name:	USS Carpenter DD-825, DDK-825, DDE-825, then back to DD-825
Namesake:	Donald M. Carpenter, Lt.Cmdr., US Navy retired, deceased
Ordered:	Name assigned, 10 July 1945
Builder:	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down:	30 July 1945
Launched:	28 September 1945
Commissioned:	15 December 1949
Decommissioned:	20 February 1981
Struck:	6 August 1987
Motto:	Luku Mokoluu (Hawaiian: "Killer of undersea boats")
Honours and awards:	Korea 1952-1953, 2 tours, 5 battle stars Vietnam 1966-1972, 5 tours, 12 battle stars
Fate:	Leased to Turkey, 20 February 1981
Turkey
Name:	TCG Anittepe (D-347)
Namesake:	Anittepe, part of Ankara, Turkey
Acquired:	Leased, 20 February 1981 Purchased, 8 June 1987
Commissioned:	20 February 1981
Decommissioned:	November 1997
Struck:	March 1998
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 1999
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:	Dual geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement:	Max 367 - minimal 12 Officers & 176 Enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	1 sonar & 3 radar (surface, air & gun fire control)
Armament:	4 × standard 3 in (76 mm) guns 2 × Weapon Alpha 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 6 × depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks
Armor:	.5 in (13 mm) steel

USS Carpenter (DD/DDK/DDE-825) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Donald M. Carpenter (1894–1940).

Carpenter was laid down on 30 July 1945 at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas; launched on 28 September 1945, and sponsored by Mrs. Donald M. Carpenter, widow of the ship's namesake. Work ceased on the ship, however, when the contract for her construction was cancelled on 30 January 1946, resumed on 21 February, but stopped again on 21 October when the hull was transferred to Algiers Naval Station, Louisiana. Towed to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company on 6 November 1947 for completion as a Carpenter sub-class hunter-killer anti-submarine destroyer (DDK), Carpenter was commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia, on 15 December 1949, Commander James B. Grady in command."

The Carpenter class, or more accurately the first ship of the DDK sub-class of eight modified Gearing class destroyers served as an interim substitute to the planned specialized "sub-killer cruisers" such as Norfolk (CLK-1), Carpenter's modifications emphasized electronic equipment and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weaponry over the standard destroyer anti-aircraft and torpedo armament. Designed to counter Soviet high-speed snorkel-equipped diesel submarines similar to the German World War II-era Type XXIs, Carpenter was equipped with a trainable Hedgehog mortar, two Weapon Alpha anti-submarine rocket launchers, anti-submarine torpedoes, and depth charges, in addition to torpedo countermeasure equipment, towed decoys and an improved sonar system.