USS Robert A. Owens (DD-827)
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USS Robert A. Owens (DD-827) off Toulon in 1967
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Robert A. Owens |
| Ordered: | 6 June 1943 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 29 October 1945 |
| Launched: | 15 July 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 5 November 1949 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 February 1982 |
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| Struck: | 6 August 1987 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Turkey, 16 February 1982 |
 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Alcitepe (D-346) |
| Namesake: | Alçi Tepe |
| Acquired: | 16 February 1982 |
| Decommissioned: | 1999 |
| Struck: | 1999 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
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| 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: | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 |
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USS Robert A. Owens (DD/DDK/DDE-827) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for USMC Sergeant Robert A. Owens (1920–1943), who was awarded both the Navy Cross and Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
Robert A. Owens was laid down on 29 October 1945 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched on 15 July 1946; sponsored by Miss Patricia Hannegan; reclassified DDK-827 on 28 January 1948; and commissioned at Boston on 5 November 1949, Commander Rexford V. Wheeler, Jr., in command.
Following shakedown in February 1950, Robert A. Owens, one of the first hunter-killer destroyers so designated, was reclassified DDE-827 on 4 March 1950. She operated in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean (during which time she sank U-2513 west of Key West, Florida during rocket tests on 7 October 1951) and in late 1952 when she deployed to the Mediterranean. From that time into the 1960s, she operated with the 6th Fleet for six months out of every eighteen. During the remaining twelve months, she conducted anti-submarine patrols off the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean. In the fall of 1957 she added the North Sea to her operational area as she joined in NATO exercises.
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