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USS DE HAVEN

(DD-727)

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DD-727 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
AUG 1943 Keel Date: 9 AUG 1943
at Bath Iron Works Bath ME
JAN 1944 Launch Date: 9 JAN 1944
MAR 1944 Commissioned: 31 MAR 1944
OCT 1960 - OCT 1961 Navy’s FRAM II modernization
JAN 1963 - DEC 1969 West Pac-Viet Nam
JUN 1966 - AUG 1968 Navy Unit Commendation
APR 1968 - APR 1968 WESPAC-VIETNAM, ANCHORED DANANG HARBOR
APR 1968 Shellback Initiation - 9 APR 1968 - Pacific Ocean
APR 1968 - JUL 1968 Vietnam Service Medal
DEC 1973 - DEC 1973 Renamed ROKN Inchon DD-98, SOUTH KOREA
DEC 1973 - DEC 1973 Decommisioning
JAN 1978 - JAN 1978 Changed hull number from DD-98 to DD-918
DEC 1994 - DEC 1994 Stricken and broken up for scrap

DD-727 General Specifications

Class: Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer

Named for: Edwin De Haven

Complement: 336 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 2200 tons

Length: 376 feet 6 inches

Beam: 40 feet

Flank Speed: 34 knots

Range: 6500 Nautical Miles

Final Disposition:To South Korea 5 December 1973