USS Stickell (DD-888)

USS "Stickell" (DD-888) was a "Gearing"-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant John H. Stickell USNR (1914–1943), who was killed in action at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

USS "Stickell" (DD-888)

"Stickell" was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 5 January 1945, launched on 16 June 1945 by Miss Sue Stickell and commissioned on 31 October 1945.

"Stickell" operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, underwent conversion to a radar picket destroyer at Long Beach Naval Shipyard between 13 December 1952 and 2 September 1953, participated in the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1963, and served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam.

"Stickell" was decommissioned and stricken from the US Naval Vessel Register on 1 July 1972, transferred to Greece and renamed "Kanaris".

HNS "Kanaris" (D-212)

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She commissioned in Hellenic Navy (Greek Navy) in 1 July 1972 in Norfolk, Virginia USA by Cdr K. Zografos HN, after sea trials and training sailed to Greece where arrived in 29 March 1973. She served in the Hellenic Navy for 20 years as part of the Destroyers Command Force. She performed many patrols in the Aegean Sea participated in Greek and NATO exercises and had active participation in the crises with Turkey of the years 1974 (Cyprus Crisis) and 1987.

The Ship's Badge depict the hand of a fireship captain holding the torch used to set on fire the fire ship, while the fireship sail toward an Ottoman flagship during Greek War of Independence, the same badge used and for the later frigate bearing the same name.

"Kanaris" was decommissioned on 15 September 1993, and sold for scrap in 2002.

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*HNS "Kanaris"

References

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s18/stickell.htm history.navy.mil: USS "Stickell"]
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/888.htm navsource.org: USS "Stickell"]
* [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd888txt.htm hazegray.org: USS "Stickell"]
* [http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/kanaris72_93_en.asp hellenicnavy.gr: "Kanaris"]
* [http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/5348/index.htm Relevant veterans web page]