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USS FORREST ROYAL (DD-872)


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Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign (circa 1968) - HARDGROVE

CLASS - GEARING As Built.
Displacement 3460 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 390' 6"(oa) x 40' 10" x 14' 4" (Max)
Armament 6 x 5"/38AA (3x2), 12 x 40mm AA, 11 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 36.8 Knots, Range 4500 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 336.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel,Staten Island NY June 8 1945.
Launched January 17 1946 and commissioned June 29 1946.
Decommissioned (?).
Stricken February 1 1973.
To Turkey March 27 1971, renamed Adatepe.
Fate Stricken and scrapped in 1993.
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Available		-Forrest Beton Royal was born on 10 February 1893 in New York City. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the class of 1915. Service in increasingly important posts afloat and ashore prepared him for his role as commander of Amphibious Group Six in the assaults on Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, and Borneo during the Philippines campaign in the War in the Pacific (1944-1945). His planning and execution of these important assignments was recognized with the Distinguished Service Medal, and the posthumous award of a Gold Star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal. Rear Admiral Royal died of a heart attack on board his flagship USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3) on 18 June 1945.Robert M. Cieri
Royal 84kUndated, location unknown.William H. Schaffer Sr.
Royal 123kUndated, on the Detroit River.John Covert
Royal 110kUSS Essex (CVA-9) and USS Forrest Royal (DD-872), circa 1958.M. Edward "Hollywood" Arnold USN IC2
Royal 121kLocation unknown, circa 1959.Marc Piché
Royal 78kLocation unknown, May 1962.Robert M. Cieri
Royal 85kNorfolk, July 1964© Richard Leonhardt
Royal 106kComing alongside the USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) during Operation Sea Dragon off the coast of North Vietnam, Spring 1967.Eric Bollin, USS Allen M. Sumner Reunion Association
Royal 79kShip's patch.M. Edward "Hollywood" Arnold USN IC2
Royal 57kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
On Turkish Service
Royal 39kAs the TCG ADATEPE D353Murat Kurtulmus
USS FORREST ROYAL DD-872 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Ronald Larsen
Address: 1240 Franklin St., Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494
Phone: (715)423-8905
E-mail: mosbyusn@wctc.net
Next reunion: Lombard, IL - June 19-22, 2008

Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Tin Can Sailors Website
Destroyer History Foundation
Destroyers Online Website
Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website

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