USS Rupertus (DD-851)
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USS Rupertus in 1958
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Rupertus |
| Namesake: | William H. Rupertus |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 2 May 1945 |
| Launched: | 21 September 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 8 March 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 July 1973 |
| Struck: | 10 July 1973 |
| Identification: | DD-581 |
| Honors and awards: |
7 battle stars (Korea) |
| Fate: | Loaned to Greece, 10 July 1973 |
 Greece
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| Name: | Kountouriotis |
| Namesake: | Pavlos Kountouriotis |
| Acquired: | 10 July 1973 |
| Decommissioned: | 1994 |
| Struck: | 1995 |
| Identification: | D213 |
| Status: | laid up |
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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 (44,742 kW) |
| 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 Rupertus (DD-851) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for United States Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus (1889–1945).
Rupertus (DD-851) was laid down on 2 May 1945 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; launched on 21 September 1945; sponsored by Mrs. William H. Rupertus; and commissioned on 8 March 1946, CDR William C. F. Robards in command.
Following shakedown off Guantanamo Bay and visits to various east coast ports, Rupertus transited the Panama Canal and steamed to San Francisco. From 1946 she alternated deployments to the western Pacific with operations off the west coast of the United States.
On her first deployment in 1947 she operated throughout the Far East, but particularly at Tsingtao, China. In the eastern Pacific throughout 1948, she returned to Tsingtao in 1949 only to be one of the last three American ships to leave that port before it fell to the Communists.
Returning to San Diego in December for operations in the eastern Pacific and overhaul, she departed San Diego on 13 November 1950 to operate with United Nations Command forces fighting the Korean War. She escorted the aircraft carrier Sicily from Sasebo, Japan to Hŭngnam, Korea; then, from 14 May 1951, operated with blockade and escort Task Force 95 (TF 95) off the west coast of Korea and in the Yellow Sea. Leaving TF 95 and steaming to Wonsan, Rupertus spent ten days off the coast near Songju and fired thousands of rounds of ammunition at shore targets. Rupertus saw continuous combat service until 4 July 1951, when she returned to Inchon during the armistice talks.
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